User talk:Snek01

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List of molluscs recorded in Poland and Cleanup-translation tl

Hi. Could you explain, why did you remove {{Cleanup-translation}} template from List of molluscs recorded in Poland article [1]? Visor (talk · contribs) 09:31, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

There was template that "page needs translation into English" but the page DOES NOT need translation. It is in English. There is just list with scientific names and with Polish names. There is no need nothing more. There is just need to expand list and article from malacological point of view. --Snek01 09:57, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

I think that names of these species should be in English, not a native language of the list. Visor (talk · contribs) 10:20, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Maybe you are right. The names can surely be in English. But it can be very useful to have got such names in vernacular language too (for practical purposes). Compare it with List of molluscs recorded in The Czech Republic. I think you should not delete vernacular names and I believe that today's list is all right. Or we can discuss it on some project, for example Wikipedia:WikiProject Gastropods or Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists. You can see that it is useful to have got vernacular names in locally related lists, for example: List of tallest buildings in Hong Kong. Maybe good choose could be to expand the list to table with scientific, locally vernacular name and English name. But I do not know how to add families to such table. I have to read more about it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists. --Snek01 13:16, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Subtitle wiki

Hi, I'm contacting you here because I suspect you don't check the foolip.org/wiki so often. I think a subtitling wiki would be a really good idea and I'm trying to find some way to not have to host the wiki myself. Are you interested in subtitling old Chinese films yourself? Foolip (talk) 08:35, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Zebrina

Nomialbot searches several online sources to find authorities; in this case the authority came from Nomenclator Zoologicus. It would be nice to program it to add a reference, but the online sources don't give the reference in the right format; in the case of Zebrina Nomenclator Zoologicus has only "Isis (Oken), 1837, 917" which needs a bit of research to turn into an acceptable reference for Wikipedia.

You can't rely on nomialbot to add the authority for you. It's simply not accurate enough to let it run without checking each edit, so I only run it when I have the time and inclination. And in any case it may be unable to find the authority. Better to do your own research. Gdr 21:16, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

Mollusc cladogram

I removed the duplicate because it was identical to the other timeline. I've now noted this on the article's talk page, feel free to take up the discussion there if needs be. Martin (Smith609 – Talk) 20:42, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Cochlicella acuta

Hello to you too Snek. Thanks! It was nice to see the work you did on Cochlicella acuta. I am glad you did it. Just now I fixed up the English a fair bit, and will look at it again tomorrow. I have never owned the book by Step, but I do know that it is very well regarded as a reference, however it is over 100 years old, and therefore the English is a bit quaint and antiquated, and some of the information on the distribution of some of the species will be out of date. As you can imagine, some species have decreased considerably since then, and others have spread a lot more. If you want to extract information from Step to use here on Wikipedia, you may need to ask me to clean up the English a bit every time you do that. I don't mind if you call on me for that. Invertzoo (talk) 23:32, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar

The Bio-Barnstar I award this Barnstar to Snek for his good work on Love dart and other snail-related articles. You must have been a snail in a previous lifetime! Invertzoo (talk) 22:40, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Yay!!! Thank you! Thank you very much. But maybe I was a slug. :) --Snek01 (talk) 16:06, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

You are very welcome! If you were a slug, you certainly were not a lazy one! Invertzoo (talk) 19:01, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

I was joking. Of course I was a human in my previous life. But now, well - ... I really am a snail. You were right. Don't you know what my Username mean? At least I am number 01! --Snek01 (talk) 19:09, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Oh, silly me, I thought that was just your screen name! Yes, number one snail. I did not know you were really an actual snail, even though yes, I did know that Snek means snail. I did not know that snails could type! Your vision must be better than I had imagined. Are you a pulmonate? I guess you must be. My screen name means Invertebrate Zoology. Invertzoo (talk) 21:41, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

DYK

I would be able to realize none of these DYKs without User:Invertzoo. --Snek01 (talk) 15:54, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

On 9 October, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Love dart, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Cirt (talk) 09:52, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

According to this statistics, Love dart got 31,000 hits on the day it was featured, which is the second-highest DYK record of all time. Congrats! --BorgQueen (talk) 07:03, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

On 24 October, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Viviparus georgianus, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Allen3 ^talk 10:23, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

On 28 October, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Valvata piscinalis, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

BorgQueen (talk) 02:20, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

On 29 October, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Radix auricularia, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

BorgQueen (talk) 09:32, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

On 5 November, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Gillia altilis, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

BorgQueen (talk) 14:33, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

On 6 November, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Elimia virginica, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 11:40, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

On 9 November, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Patera clarki nantahala, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 07:00, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

On 9 November, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Papillifera bidens, which you recently nominated. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 11:15, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

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Gatoclass (talk) 07:38, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

A question on what happens to love darts after they are fired

Hi Snek, Someone asked on the talk page of love dart, what happens to the dart that is stuck in the flesh of the snail. Does it dissolve eventually, or does it fall out eventually, or what? I haven't seen any mention of that, have you? Invertzoo (talk) 21:22, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

I do not know yet. --Snek01 (talk) 21:35, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Biotope versus Habitat

Me again Snek, I think that usually in English we usually tend to say habitat rather than biotope. Best, Invertzoo (talk) 00:14, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

List of molluscs...

Hi again Snek, I am thinking about the list I am working on. I have some questions for you:

• I notice that currently all of the regional lists are called "List of molluscs..." However the one I am working on will be ONLY the land and freshwater mollusks, the non-marine mollusks. I feel that for countries which have a coastline, there should really be two mollusk lists, one for the marine mollusks and one for the non-marine mollusks. What do you think? The marine mollusks are so very numerous and also they require a different kind of expertise. I feel they should be separate. Some of the existing lists are in fact non-marine only, but nothing in the title indicates that.
• I am thinking perhaps I should make one list for the island of Great Britain, and another one for the island of Ireland, because the faunas are a bit different. Any comments? (That is rather than trying to make one list for the British Isles, which is a controversial word that no-one can agree on.)
• As for the actual title of the list, some people call their list "List of the molluscs of Xcountry" Others call it, "List of the molluscs recorded for Xcountry". The titles should be standardized I think. Which do you think is better?
• I am confused about the available categories. There is a a category "Molluscs by country", and there is a category "Regional invertebrate lists". There is also a category "Molluscs of Europe" which seems to be primarily just individual species listed, but which also contains 7 regional lists which I think should either go into a subcategory, or in some way be separated from the rest of that category. Most of those 7 lists are not listed under "Molluscs by country".

Thanks for your input, Best to you, Invertzoo (talk) 17:52, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

• Name of list: Keep List of molluscs of Xcountry. There is always description of what is the list about. If there will be need an additional list of marine molluscs, it can be named List of marine molluscs of Xcountry or List of molluscs of Xocean/Xsea and they can be divided into List of marine gastropods of Xcountry and List of marine bivalves of Xcountry if needed.
• Existing lists List of the molluscs recorded in Xcountry can be renamed to List of molluscs of Xcountry.
• Category: there should be only one category for lists. Category:Regional invertebrate lists / Category:Regional molluscs lists or Category:Lists of molluscs by country.
• Unused categories are: Category:Molluscs by country and Category:Molluscs of Europe - I do not use it at all because species can not have every category for every place where they live. --Snek01 (talk) 22:22, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your input Snek. Actually I just put the article up a few minutes ago. Right now the title is List of non-marine molluscs recorded in Great Britain. I can easily change that, but I may not do anything more to it this evening, because I am tired. I plan to do more work on the article though. Thanks, Invertzoo (talk) 23:53, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

You said in reference to the name of the lists: "Keep List of molluscs of Xcountry. There is always description of what is the list about. If there will be need an additional list of marine molluscs, it can be named List of marine molluscs of Xcountry or List of molluscs of Xocean/Xsea and they can be divided into List of marine gastropods of Xcountry and List of marine bivalves of Xcountry if needed."

OK, you are saying that the default should be "List of molluscs of Xcountry" and that "List of marine molluscs of Xcountry" should be the exception.

I must say that I find it much clearer to have it this way: "List of non-marine molluscs of Xcountry" and "List of marine molluscs of Xcountry". That is the way it is usually done in Britain. What is the objection to that? Invertzoo (talk) 21:39, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Synanthropic

Just wanted to say that in England, the word synanthropic when applied to mollusks merely means mollusks that do well living around humans. There are numerous mollusks like that in Britain, such as Deroceras reticulatum, and many other species. We do not use that word to refer to the ones that live in greenhouses; we call them "hothouse aliens". I guess in your country the word is used differently? Invertzoo (talk) 23:35, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

About Clausilium

Looking at the category Mollusc anatomy, I was wondering if we should create a short article about the clausilium? There is a draft of a beginning at [2] which is taken from the article at Clausiliidae. We also may want to do a short article about Epiphragm I guess... What do you think? Or really should these be dictionary/Wiktionary things instead?Invertzoo (talk) 22:19, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Yes, there should be articles for both of them. --Snek01 (talk) 22:35, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Gillia altilis

Well the obvious crowd puller is:

• DYK ...that the male buffalo pebble snail has his penis on the back of his neck?

You need an explicit source for this, and it would be good to add a bit more. The NAS FactSheet doesn't specifically source this.

Alternatively:

• DYK ...that the buffalo pebble snail has a large, muscular foot that suctions on rocks and allows it to survive in a fast stream?
• DYK ...that the buffalo pebble snail is adapted to survive both on rocks in a fast stream and also on sandy bottoms in stagnant water?

Btw, are you familiar with this website? --Geronimo20 (talk) 23:27, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your help. DYK proposed. I have not seen that website before. I am interested mainly in land and freshwater gastropods. Does it have any advantages that I should use? Do you use it and how? --Snek01 (talk) 10:09, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

The website is run by OBIS. You just enter a species name at the top. It then accesses various worldwide databases, and from this maps the global reported distribution. Marvellous! For example enter Theodoxus fluviatilis, which is the northern europe common river nerite, and you get this map. I use it mainly to see the distribution of commercial marine species. You would have to test it to see whether it works properly for inland species. --Geronimo20 (talk) 19:12, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Those Ohio snail images on Flickr

Do you have the link for that page again Snek? I can't find it. Thanks. Invertzoo (talk) 00:47, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/amatuer_44060/tags/snail/ --Snek01 (talk) 07:27, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

OK thanks, I already found it, and have already asked him. I will let you know if I get a reply Invertzoo (talk) 17:02, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

OK, Aydin says "It could be a Neohelix or a Mesodon, but can’t be sure without better pics." Invertzoo (talk) 17:05, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

That means that we certainly use them to illustrate the article Polygyridae, even if we cannot ID them down to genus and species. Invertzoo (talk) 17:15, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Cypraea spadicea

Hi Snek, The map for this species shows a distribution much larger than the real one. This species is subtropical, not tropical. It only occurs in a fairly small range of just a few hundred miles, from Monterey, California, USA to Cedros Island in central Baja California, Mexico. That is, unless you have some new information that I don't know about.... best to you, Invertzoo (talk) 23:18, 13 November 2008 (UTC) Tweak. Invertzoo (talk) 23:19, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

I am sorry for mistake. I used a map from commons. If there is a mistake, please remove map from article and write down a text about it to image description (to others will not use it). Thanks.

I am making articles for images at Wikipedia:WikiProject Gastropods/Resources2, which are without articles at species level. I am checking all of them but I also hope that they are determined correctly. If you can see a problematic image or possibly problematic image, please let me to know. --Snek01 (talk) 23:36, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi, Snek.
I had help from the experts on the CONCH-L Listserver who found the publication that ITIS used for the molluscan data. Richard Petit, whose expertise and library are considerable, e-mailed back to the list that the date given Cypraea spadicea Swainson, 1823 is just as given here. I can forward a copy, if you like.
Since ITIS is a committee of govenrment agencies, seriously doubt that they will be willing to undertake a minor entry error. Let's hope this was the only one to get into the database.
Makuabob (talk) 16:22, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Bursatella leachii

Hi again, I found an image for this article on the Italian Wikipedia [3] but I am not sure how to link it to the article on this WIkipedia. I expect you know how? Thanks. Invertzoo (talk) 21:16, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Done. Image moved. --Snek01 (talk) 22:45, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

There are few more images on Nudibranchs from the same source on Italian wikipedia. I will move them in the future. --Snek01 (talk) 23:06, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

OK, sounds good! Invertzoo (talk) 23:11, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

More Spanish Dancer

There's a very nice image near the bottom of the page at [4] which, because it is a government NOAA page, is presumably Free? Invertzoo (talk) 00:04, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

I do not know. I have sent a question. --Snek01 (talk) 00:14, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Pallium (anatomy)

I just discovered this weird little article. Should it really be a disambiguation page? Or perhaps should it be first a disambiguation page, and then after that, a separate neuroanatomy article? Invertzoo (talk) 16:34, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Utah roundmouth snail DYK

Hey, just for your information, my comment at DYK doesn't mean you need to put a reference after a sentence. What I was talking about wasn't really a problem with inline citations; it's just that I personally don't believe we should be allowed to copy text from PD sources on Wikipedia without quoting it. You haven't done anything wrong—the current rules on Wikipedia allow you to copy and paste text from Wikipedia sources. It's just something that I don't support, even though the rules don't forbid it (this is an instance where I disagree with the rules). That's why I didn't reject your hook, because for me it's a matter of personal preference and that probably wouldn't be fair; right now Victuallers is working on trying to verify your hook. —Politizer ^talk/_contribs 15:32, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

As a native English speaker, I'm pretty sure that the words used in the two hooks you showed me are relatively common, or have meanings that are easily inferrable from the context; "extirpate," on the other hand, is not (as far as I know) a word that most English speakers know or could figure out from the context. I'm not saying your hook should be rejected because of it; I'm just saying whenever we can make the hook clearer to a wider audience, we should do so.

As for copying PD text, like I said, as far as Wikipedia rules are concerned there's nothing wrong with it. It's just something I object strongly to and will never be able to change my mind about. I'm not going to reject a DYK hook for it, though, because there's no rule against it. —Politizer ^talk/_contribs 17:19, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Synonyms and Merging, the Euspira lewisii article

I have to say that don't know the literature hardly at all, so I am not absolutely sure who worked on the somewhat recent revision of the Naticidae, but I think it was Alan Kabat:

• Kabat, Alan R. 1991. The classification of the Naticidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda): review and analysis of the supraspecific taxa. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 152(7): 417-449.

Before his revision, Naticidae had more or less only two genera: Natica with a calcareous operculum, and Polynices with a protein operculum. But now there are several more genera. I think the family needed a revision, and he is an expert on this family, so I think I would trust him and go with Euspira. Invertzoo (talk) 15:37, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi Snek, I hope you don't mind, I went ahead and merged the content of the longer Polinices lewisii article into the stub info in the Euspira lewisii article, and did a redirect, (and also put the project template onto the talk page.) Best wishes, Invertzoo (talk) 22:19, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

{{Commercial mollusc topics}} and {{Fisheries and fishing}}

Hi Snek, I read your note to Geronimo about the template. If you are interested, you and I could try to design a template for commercial mollusks which is more elaborate and structured, more like the fisheries and fishing one than the current simple list one is? We could do a mock-up of it maybe to see how it might look? We could work on it perhaps on my drafting page at [5]. If it comes out well, and seems reasonable and clear and useful, maybe we can have it be strongly linked to fisheries, but at the same time not necessarily an integrated part of Geronimo's fisheries cascade of templates. Just a preliminary idea. Invertzoo (talk) 13:40, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi Snek. I apologize for taking so long to replying to your query on {{Commercial mollusc topics}}. I think the alternate direction the template is taking with Invertzoo is fine. To explain what I originally had in mind, there are, scattered around Wikipedia, sections in articles that are do with commercial fisheries. These are almost impossible to keep track of, so I designed some side bars to keep track of what is there, or what should be there. An example is {{Commercial fish topics}}. If you run down the articles on this template, you will find that most, though not all, the articles have a reasonably appropriate section to do with commercial fishing. The trouble with the mollusk template is that most of these sections haven't been written yet – so I can understand you wondering what the point of it is. Still, the template at the moment makes it clear what needs to be done and where. Since I seem to be the only one one adding content to fishery articles on a regular basis, filling in these gaps may take some time. Your alternate template at the bottom does not fulfil the purpose of drawing attention specifically to a section. I think we can distinguish between a general template, which refers to articles as a whole, and a "section" template, which focusses on a particular section. Anyway, having said all that, I have no objection to dropping it in favour of something like Invertzoo's version. It does leave a slight loose end in fisheries in that it breaks a pattern across other templates, but that is a small enough matter, particularly since it seems to be meeting other requirements for mollusks, such as terrestrial ones. All the best. --Geronimo20 (talk) 02:40, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Juliidae

Hi Snek,I just wanted to say that if you ever come across any Free image(s) that we could use of any bivalved gastropods, which is to say sacoglossans in the family Juliidae, genera such as Julia, Berthelinia, Midorigai, Edenttellina, Tamanovalva, Candinida, etc, that would be really terrific! Best to you, Invertzoo (talk) 18:25, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

It should be spelled as Candinia http://www.jstor.org/pss/1306386

I will try to look for them. --Snek01 (talk) 19:37, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

• Julia exquisita in report by Challenger expedition http://www.19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-Reports/Zool-35/PDFpages/-13-35.html :
  • http://www.19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-Reports/Zool-35/PDFpages/13-35-273.pdf - text
  • http://www.19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-Reports/Zool-35/PDFpages/13-35-274.pdf - text

I found no image of Berthelinia there http://www.archive.org/details/annalesdelasoci26soci There are 5 plates scanned only but there should be more plates (Berthelinia should be at plate 7 and at plate 8).

I think, that they were classified in late 19 century close to bivalves(!) Dreissena or Mytilus, so I have not seen them in books about gastropods yet. --Snek01 (talk) 20:24, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Yes you are right: I believe they were first described and named from fossil valves, and were considered to be bivalves for many years, until live ones were found in the 20th century. Apparently they are not that particularly rare, just small and easily overlooked. I was trying to do a little to expand the article Valve (mollusc). Invertzoo (talk) 18:42, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

What counts as a "commercial mollusk"?

I wrote this today to Geronimo, and wanted also to ask you what you think: how large-scale you think selling has to be before you feel it can be classified as "commercial"? In the Caribbean islands of St Kitts & Nevis (and probably elsewhere throughout the Caribbean) they collect and sell Cittarium pica, the large West Indian top snail. But I am not sure whether you would count that as a "commercial fishery". Also in Chinatown here in NYC you can sometimes buy live razor clams Ensis directus collected from somewhere not too far from here on the East Coast. But does that count as "commercial fishery"? See what I mean? Is it legitimate to include these species or not, assuming we can support them with a citation? What do you think? Thanks. Invertzoo (talk) 18:42, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

The new commercial mollusks template

I saved it to Template:Commercial molluscs to differentiate if from the old one Template:Commercial mollusc topics. We can start using it now. Invertzoo (talk) 22:44, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

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Ashfordia

Oh thanks! That is why I could not find many mentions of the species when I was googling! Thanks a lot Snek. I changed them all over to the correct spelling. Best, Invertzoo (talk) 22:33, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Pseudotrichia rubiginosa and Balea biplicata

Hi again, I just discovered this minute discovered that we have 2 articles on the same species: one on Pseudotrichia rubiginosa and one on German hairy snail. I guess they need to be merged? Invertzoo (talk) 23:03, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Me again. I guess you (like me) also discovered that we did have 2 articles on the same species, Balea biplicata and Two-lipped door snail. I guess you were the one who fixed that?

By the way the link: "Water Island Sanctuary For Sweaty, Hairy Snails Becomes London's Latest Local Nature Reserve", 22 Feb 07 is no good. I found the same information, which is applicable to both the Pseudotrichia species and the Balea species at: [6]I listed that as a link in the Pseudotrichia rubiginosa article but not yet in the Balea biplicata article. Invertzoo (talk) 23:47, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Merged and updated. Thanks for these links. --Snek01 (talk) 00:02, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for sorting this out - when I set up Isleworth Ait, these creatures seemed worth describing, but there was nothing then to link to. Regards Motmit (talk) 12:34, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Snek can you tell me, does the blue link above for "Water Island Sanctuary For Sweaty Hairy Snails...." work when you try it? It does not work for me at all. I was going to delete it in both articles but I will not delete it if it works OK for you. Invertzoo (talk) 21:27, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

The link is broken. --Snek01 (talk) 22:13, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

I removed it. Invertzoo (talk) 15:25, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Happy New Year

Dear Michal, aka Snek,

Our vision for Wikipedia is one of beauty, natural symmetry and light.

I wish you a Happy New Year, everything good for your family, your loved ones and yourself, peace and joy for all the people of the world. I also wish a joyful and peaceful expansion for Wikipedia, may it bring helpful, generous, and peaceful information to everyone.
All the very best from Invertzoo (talk) 16:52, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Planorbidae

Hi. Just wanted to say that I worked a bit on this article this morning. Among other things I put in a link to the pre-existing article Ramshorn snail, which is mostly about aquarium trade snails. You may want to check out that article. Best wishes, Invertzoo (talk) 16:16, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Chiton tuberculatus

The main image needs changing. Maybe you can change the title of the image? It is really an image of two specimens of Acanthopleura granulata on a rock in Guadeloupe.

Here is what I wrote to the photographer on his page on Commons:

Hi Lycaon! Happy New Year! I wanted to tell you that the species of chiton in your image is in fact Acanthopleura granulata (Gmelin, 1791). It is not Chiton tuberculatus. There is a nice picture of A. granulata here [7]. A picture of Chiton tuberculatus is here: [8]. Chiton tuberculatus lives much further down in the intertidal, usually away from the sun, like under stones, and the species has a girdle which is scaly, like snake skin, rather than being spiny like A. granulata. Best to you, Invertzoo (talk) 20:36, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Acanthopleura granulata

I made a stub article for this species and I included the image above. However it would be much better for this particular article if it was cropped down so that you basically only see the two chitons. Do you think you could crop it and upload it as another version of this image? Thanks so much. By the way, I have a couple of valves of this species, and I will scan in an image of them also so we can add that to the article. Thanks again, Invertzoo (talk) 22:11, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Japanese cinema requests

Would you mind changing these to Latin-alphabet? Doing so not only will ensure compliance with our naming standards, but also will make it easier for non-Japanese editors to help create and develop those articles. Thanks, Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 23:31, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Have you tried IMDb? Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 23:58, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

I tried IMDb, maybe I ovelooked some of them, but there are not all Japanese films. Wikipedia is better. --Snek01 (talk) 00:08, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Nerita

Hi MIchal, I wondered, when you get around to cropping the image mentioned above for a better view of the chitons, could you also do a different crop that frames the black and white nerite on the lower left? I could use that for the Nerita article and for an article that needs doing on Nerita tessellata. Thanks and all good wishes, Invertzoo (talk) 00:03, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Done. :) Article Nerita tessellata started. --Snek01 (talk) 10:55, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks so much! That is great on both the species! Invertzoo (talk) 02:00, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Re:Poster

Sorry for my belated answer. My dear computer has a serious problem which can not be resolved soon, so I've been slow to answer to any queries from editors. Well, I had tried to obtain better images from the site, but it requires me to install software, but I failed. Thus, I have no way to get it for you. I once contact the site manager regarding the matter, they just said "Sorry for you inconvenience, We'll try to fix it" However, well, nothing has been changed.--Caspian blue 00:04, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Limicolaria aurora and John Clarkson Jay, 1839

Hello again. I changed your Jay (surname) link to John Clarkson Jay, because I found a good external link with info on this American amateur conchologist. I wondered if you felt like starting an article on him. [9] Best wishes, Invertzoo (talk) 01:21, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Image crop and rotate? For Depressed river mussel and Pseudanodonta

Hi Michal, This image could use cropping and rotating about 90 degrees,

if you get a chance to do that. Thanks so much for your help, Invertzoo (talk) 15:39, 26 January 2009 (UTC) Invertzoo (talk) 17:53, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

About the crop you sent me? Actually, yes, that would be good I think... what do you think? I suppose it could be cropped to show just the top five specimens and thus it would be a square image, but I suppose it is fine as a long thin image. By the way my email to you bounced back today as undeliverable. I don't know why. Best to you, Invertzoo (talk) 00:15, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks Michal. It looks good cropped like that. In retrospect I think the color balance and brightness is off too. It seems too pale and too blue. I could adjust those if you sent me a copy to work on. Invertzoo (talk) 01:09, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Smokey says

Well, I guess I stopped a forest fire at Lacy elimia! Best, Invertzoo (talk) 22:12, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Decollate Snail

This image is a nice high-res portrait, but it could use being cropped down, we don't need so much background. Could you do the honors? Thanks Michal. Invertzoo (talk) 01:06, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks Michal, that is much better! Invertzoo (talk) 01:56, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Images of mollusks

Thanks Snek: What a nice present for Valentine's Day, and even more perfect for the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birthday today! Happy Evolution by Natural Selection Day!!! So many great mollusk images! Here are some of my favorites: 16, 25, 31, 38, 49, 66, 69, 74, 93, 100, 2006, 261, 269, 270, 294, 295, 297.

Thanks again, Invertzoo (talk) 21:05, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

image 25 - Is Amphibola avellana a valid species or a synonym for Amphibola crenata? --Snek01 (talk) 00:32, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

It's a synonym. Amphibola is a monotypic genus. There will of course need to be a lot of nomenclatural changes overall in the various illustrations. I can help you with that if you like. Also I will look at the thumbnails again and let you know which bivalve images I think should have a high priority. Best, Invertzoo (talk) 01:30, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Could you crop another image please?

This image has way too much unattractive background. Thanks so much, Invertzoo (talk) 01:37, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Great! That is much better! Thanks! Invertzoo (talk) 01:10, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Anostoma

• Have you ever seen Anostoma? For example [10] [11] This surely will be a first row DYK! May I play with you at your sandbox with Anostoma, please? --Snek01 (talk) 12:00, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Oh wow. Yes, I vaguely remember seeing illustrations of the shell of this snail in the past, but I never really paid any attention. Ha ha, yes, it is pretty amazing. It is like the shells of the aquatic Planorbidae in that the shell is carried upside down, but in the case of the planorbids you can't really tell they are upside down, because most are planispiral so that both sides look the same. Actually no-one understood they were sinistral upside-down shells for a long time, they thought they were dextral shells carried the right way up... whereas here there is no mistaking it! If you like, we can start the new article here: [12] Best, Invertzoo (talk) 13:32, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Another couple of things about Anostoma[13]

Just wanted to say I found a good reference. Unfortunately it's in Portuguese, but the abstract is in English:

http://www.biologia.ucr.ac.cr/rbt/attachments/suppls/sup51-3%20malacol/10-CAMPOS_42.pdf

I think it would be good to mention the size range (size of the shells that is) somewhere. The photos all seem to give the sizes at least, which might be useful info for us to go by. Invertzoo (talk) 01:08, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Gastropod Valentine

A very Happy Valentine's day to you too! -- Invertzoo (talk) 18:52, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

Anostoma and Ringicella

I put them both up just now. The DYK hook is still at [14] Ringicella needs its refs adding. Looking good! Invertzoo (talk) 14:22, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

NOTE: On that same drafting page 3, I made a copy of, and filled in the "form" for, the DYK submission. It's currently invisible, but you can make it visible and check it out as soon as you get a chance. If it seems good to you, you can go ahead and post it on the DYK template talk page under the heading for articles created/expanded on February 17.

Best wishes, Invertzoo (talk) 14:42, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

DYK problem

Hello! Your submission of Anostoma at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Gary King (talk) 17:48, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

About the DYK problem

I think I just now did what they needed us to do, which was to add Pilsbry refs to the sentences in both of the articles where the "upside down" arrangement of shell is first mentioned. I did this in both Anostoma and Ringicella. I hope it is OK now. Please as soon as you get a chance, check and see if what I did is OK. Thanks Invertzoo (talk) 19:25, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

editors help

Hello I run asianmediawiki, the site last year was placed on the meta's blacklist for inappropriate links. I believe out website would be of help to wikipedia and have had users ask about the blacklist. I have requested the blacklist to remove but mike and beetstra asked me to first ask a long standing editor in that realm to request it first. May I ask you to place such a request? Please have a look at asianmediawiki's content if you are not already familiar with it. Thank you .. --RamenLover (talk) 22:39, 18 February 2009 (UTC)