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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