FURTHER NOTES ON LEPTOCHITON SCABRIDUS (JEFFREYS)
One of the largest reedbeds in Southern England, along with ex-gravel pits, streams and the Kennet and Avon canal, providing a wide range of water bodies and wetlands to survey.
Rosemary Hill (0118 966 5160; rosemaryhi@lineone.net)
Rocky shore; also patches of sand with small bivalves, hopefully including Spisula elliptica, Gari and Moerella (LT 13:30 +0.4).
Bas Payne (01647 24515; bas.payne@gmail.com)
Rocky shore with good small gastropods, piddocks and Doris ocelligera (LT 12:40 +0.5).
David Fenwick (01736 448 392; davidfenwicksnr@googlemail.com)
Joint meeting with the Sorby Natural History Society, and a contribution to the Sheffield Bioblitz.
Robert Cameron (radc@blueyonder.co.uk, 0114 268 6675 (home))
Snail transects across the bank and ditch, and a guided archaeological tour of the Neolithic stone circle.
Mike Allen (07828 103454, aea.escargots@gmail.com)
dead shell taken from scallop dredge off Shetland 8mm, the species is circumpolar with the best examples being found in the North West Atlantic in deep water where they are larger and iridescent.
This species has been said to be our largest Mangelia. The figured shell is from lower intertidal zone but from Britany as I know of no authentic fresh material from UK or Channel Islands
