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Molluscs


While botanizing in Newfoundland with Merritt Lyndon Fernald in 1924, 1925 and 1929, Bayard Long made the first serious collections of land and freshwater molluscs from the Island, mostly from "limestone regions". Now residing in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, these collections were studied by the distinguished malacologist E. G. Vanatta (Vanatta 1925, Vanatta 1927, Vanatta 1930).

Between 1934 and 1938, Stanley Truman Brooks, of the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, made three trips to Newfoundland and Labrador specifically to collect terrestrial molluscs. In our "limestone regions", he collected near Port au Port, Lomond, Plum Point, Brig Bay, and Point Riche. These collections reside in the Carnegie Museum where they were studied by Brooks (Brooks 1936; Brooks and Brooks 1940).

Since the mid-1980s, John E. Maunder (Newfoundland Museum, retired) and Ronald G. Noseworthy have collected many additional terrestrial and freshwater molluscs in Newfoundland and Labrador. Their richest collecting grounds have been the "limestone regions" of western and northern Newfoundland. Their collections reside in the Rooms Provincial Museum (formerly the Newfoundland Museum), where they are still being analysed by their collectors.

By rough count, about 30 terrestrial molluscs (snails and slugs) and about 20 freshwater molluscs (snails and clams) reside in our "limestone regions".





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