Finding the Magnolia Threetooth land snail, Triodopsis hopetenensis, in NYC
On Friday March 12, my iNat friend @steven-cyclist drove us to Shirley Chisholm State Park in Brooklyn, at the north end of Jamaica Bay.
To my surprise I found a lot of empty shells and live individuals of the polygyrid species Triodopsis hopetonensis, identified for me by Harry G. Lee of Jacksonville, Florida.
Cool!
This species has apparently never been recorded officially before from New York State, so I am writing an article about this discovery for American Conchologist magazine.
The first four images here are of dead empty shells from grassland. The other five images are of live snails that were sheltering under small rocks beside a gravel pathway in the State Park.
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Shirley Chisholm State Park, Gateway National Recreation Area - Jamaica Bay, New York, NY, US (Google, OSM)Beskrivning
Live ones that were resting under small rocks at the side of the path.
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Very cool! Thanks for sharing. You sure have a knack for finding the most interesting critters (plants included).
Wow those are so awesome!
Thanks Robin, the shells are very cute with those fancy apertures, aren't they!
And thanks Daniel, I hope I can get out more often to places like this that are a bit further away than I can easily go. I am lucky that I have two friends who have access to a car sometimes.
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