New: The Pot Fouling Project (and already a new snail!)

One day into the new project, already something interesting. A first on iNat for the SF Bay Area: Southern Flatcoil Snail. This snail was in a plant nursery in Cupertino, Santa Clara County, CA: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/101369553

https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/the-pot-fouling-project

Please join The Pot Fouling Project if you are interested in land snails and slugs, mushrooms and other fungi, salamanders and newts, millipedes, centipedes, spiders, insects, terrestrial worms, etc. Anything that lives under a human-made garden container is fair game to add to this project. Urban or rural as long as it's under something, so check out nurseries, public gardens, etc. And perhaps it will help scientists track invasive species too, so yay for that.

Pots (and nurseries) remind me a little of the man-made marinas and harbors where I go dock-fouling; they might provide "safe harbor" for non-native species to establish themselves through inadvertent introduction. AKA Ground Zero.

Able to help on the snail?: Rookie question: Southern Flatcoils are widespread across the Southern US, including Southern California, but I have yet to find a record of them in the San Francisco Bay Area, which strikes me as weird. They do not appear in Roth & Sadeghian's checklist, but I can't imagine this is really the first record of them here. If you are a California land snail expert - and I'm looking very hopefully at you @jannvendetti @cedric_lee @pliffgrieff @thomaseverest @tlawson @susanhewitt @finatic @oksnaillaboratory - could you please weigh in on this if you have a chance?

Publicado el 18 de noviembre de 2021 a las 05:21 PM por anudibranchmom