User talk:Daniel Cavallari/Archive 31

One more thing on stub gastropod articles
Just wanted to say that when I find a stub where the intro sentence is very short, I research it and expand it to make it intelligible to a non-specialist so it reads like this:

Angrobia xxxxxxxxx is a species of minute freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Hydrobiidae. This species is endemic to Australia.

instead of:

Angrobia xxxxxxxxx is a species of gastropod in the Hydrobiidae family. It is endemic to Australia.

After all, as I have had to tell Snek, the average person actually has no idea at all what a "gastropod" is. Best wishes Invertzoo (talk) 21:46, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

Congratulations!!
Many congratulations on Byne's disease as a DYK! It certainly deserves it. Invertzoo (talk) 12:37, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

About distribution red links for Kerry slug
OH, that would be great if you could make some or all of the Spanish and Portuguese red links go away! Thanks! If there is a danger of an edit conflict, you could do only one or two at a time maybe. Thanks again. Invertzoo (talk)
 * I'll do everything I can to improve that red links. I may even create some new articles, based on Portuguese and Spanish Wikipedia.--Daniel Cavallari (talk) 04:44, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks so much Daniel, there are a lot less red links now. I did a bunch of stubs for the Irish localities. If I can help you with any of the remaining red links for Spain, please do let me know. Best wishes, Invertzoo (talk) 15:06, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

Finished the "A"s
Phew! That was nearly 500 gastropod stubs beginning with an A. Wow. Invertzoo (talk) 22:03, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

Almost halfway through the "B"s. Invertzoo (talk) 21:57, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I finished "U"s and forward. Working on "T"s--Daniel Cavallari (talk) 22:05, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

It's great to see that the unassessed number is now under 2,000! Yay! Invertzoo (talk) 00:00, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

Ah, now we are down in the 1800s! Invertzoo (talk) 19:00, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

Now below 1850! By the way, thanks for starting assessments of list articles using "class=list". Good idea. I went back and did that to all (I think) of our list articles. Maybe we can try to see if we can get one up to the quality of a featured list. Invertzoo (talk) 14:09, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

One more thing about Byne's disease
I just now wondered if we should mention that seashells should be washed in freshwater and dried before they are stored because without this, the salt attracts moisture and puts the shells at an increased risk for Bynes. What do you think? Invertzoo (talk) 22:42, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, you are right. Besides, the remaining water on the surface or resting inside the damp shell may evaporate, thus contributing to raise the relative humidity inside the storage environment as a whole. That's worth mentioning, I believe!--Daniel Cavallari (talk) 23:01, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

list of Brazil
Hello Daniel, I have added Hypselartemon contusulus to the list of Brazil. It is probable, that it is already as a synonym also there. Could you check it out, please? Thanks. --Snek01 (talk) 13:36, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

GA review of Eustrombus gigas
Hi, Daniel, I've posted initial comments at Talk:Eustrombus gigas/GA1. The main issue at present is clarifying the article's structure, which needs to be resolved before there's any point in reviewing individual sections. I think this article has all the materials for a GA, but needs quite a lot of polishing - in addition to the structure, a lot of terminology needs to be explained for non-specialist readers, and the use of images needs thought. However if you're prepared to work on it so am I - and then I'd expect this to be a GA in 2 to 4 weeks. --Philcha (talk) 15:09, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much for your concern. Let us work on it, then. --Daniel Cavallari (talk) 15:56, 23 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Hi, Daniel. The highest priorities at present are the name of the species / genus and the article structure (I did not realised at the start of the review that discussion of structure had effectively only started recently at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Gastropods). One thse very large issues are resolved (at least for now), then I'll start walking through sections. --Philcha (talk) 09:23, 3 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Hi, Daniel, thanks for your message. I'm afraid you need to check every statement in the article for citations, as section "Shell description" has a bunch of citation issues in just one section - see Talk:Eustrombus gigas/GA1 for further details. --Philcha (talk) 10:05, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

Haliotis varia
Hello Daniel, I have just started Haliotis varia. Could you check Spanish es:Haliotis_barbouri and update it or correct my article if needed? Thank you. --Snek01 (talk) 20:02, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

Eustrombus gigas and Kerry Slug
I am certainly willing to help with the GA fixing-up. I took a quick look at the comments this morning but this afternoon I will try to see if there are some things that I can do to help. Leave me a message if need be.

Also I should let you know that Snek resubmitted the queen conch article without letting the rest of Project Gastropods know he was planning to do that, and without having carried out any more clean up on it.

Best wishes, Invertzoo (talk) 14:36, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you, your help is invaluable! And the article was resubmitted? What does that mean Susan? --Daniel Cavallari (talk) 14:40, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

It means that he is trying once again to get FA status without having improved the article since it was rejected about 10 days ago. The page is here:

Top image of live Eustrombus gigas
I just now realized that the top image in the article is actually left-right reversed! That is not our fault, it was done at some point by NOAA, the government agency. I will ask Snek if he would "flip" it for us so that it does not look like it has a sinistral shell. When that is done I will also note on the caption that it is a sub-adult animal, no flare on the lip of the shell. Best, Invertzoo (talk) 13:24, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

RfD nomination of Agüeira
I have nominated for discussion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Jezhotwells (talk) 15:52, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

Stub list total
We are doing great. Down from 2368, we have fixed more than 852 of the importance unassessed articles (because new ones were also being added) and more than 4,000 in total stubs of every kind! Fairly soon we will be at the half-way point, and after that it will go quite fast. Best wishes, Invertzoo (talk) 15:00, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

Now we are down in the 1400s as a total number. Looking good! The great thing about doing all this is that you and I will be the only two who have actually read and worked with the great majority of all the project articles, so we will have an excellent overview of what is actually in the project. Best wishes to you, Invertzoo (talk) 14:21, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

Almost time to enter the 1300s. I finally finished all the "C"s and am into the "D"s. I was beginning to think the Cs would never end! By the way, you are very overdue for this nice blue ribbon apprentice editor badge. In fact in just a few weeks you will be eligible for your Journeyman Editor badge I think. All of these service badges you can help yourself to, just take the right one as soon as you qualify. They are on this page:.

Now I am entering the stub Es. Invertzoo (talk) 13:43, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

And now a little way into the Fs. Invertzoo (talk) 00:47, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

Halfway through the Gs now. Invertzoo (talk) 16:56, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Starting the Hs. Invertzoo (talk) 00:59, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

Starting the Is. Invertzoo (talk) 23:25, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Starting the Js, there were not many Is. Invertzoo (talk) 21:39, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Starting the Ks. Invertzoo (talk) 22:58, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

Startling the Ls. Invertzoo (talk) 22:23, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

Started the Ms. Invertzoo (talk) 02:27, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

At long last, finished the Ss. Starting the Rs --Daniel Cavallari (talk) 18:26, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Finished the R's, now for the P's (quite a huge list).--Daniel Cavallari (talk) 06:10, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

Only 600 articles remain that are unassessed! Good work! Invertzoo (talk) 18:39, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

I am in the Ns now, and have also fixed up a bunch of "random" articles. Invertzoo (talk) 22:56, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

We have less than 500 stubs that are lacking an importance rating to find, in other words about a 1000 stubs left to do. We only need to finish the Ns, do the Os and finish the Ps. I think both you and I already went through completely all of the newly uncovered gastropod articles that Xenobot found. Yes! We are making great progress! Invertzoo (talk) 13:39, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Congratulations on Byne's disease getting GA!
That is fantastic! Well done! It really is a nice article and deserves a high status. Invertzoo (talk) 00:02, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

And it's only our 4th article to get GA, so this is excellent! Invertzoo (talk) 21:50, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

Your service badge
Congratulations Daniel, and best wishes, Invertzoo (talk) 23:30, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

It's that time of year again...


Invertzoo (talk) is wishing you Seasons Greetings! Whether you celebrate your hemisphere's Solstice or Xmas, Eid, Diwali, Hogmanay, Hannukah, Lenaia, Festivus or even the Saturnalia, this is a special time of year for almost everyone!

Spread the holiday cheer by adding to your friends' talk pages. All my best wishes to you Daniel, and I hope you feel a lot less stressed soon. Invertzoo (talk) 22:46, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Stubs
I figured you were very busy, don't feel badly, it happens to all of us. Take your time. By the way, we have a new member User:SuperHamster who has volunteered to try his hand at fixing up the stubs. I told him he could have a go at the stubs that start with the letter M. All good wishes, Invertzoo (talk) 18:56, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

Happy New Year
Dear Daniel,

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 in the world. All the very best from Invertzoo (talk) 18:59, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

Semicassis granulata
Hi Daniel,

I have finally started fixing up the article Semicassis granulata. Because you know the Brazilian fauna well, it would be very helpful if you could take a look and see what you can do, in terms of cleaning it up a bit and adding more info that is reliable wherever it is needed. Please bear in mind that some of the sources the students used were online sources written by an amateur, and so the info from those sources may be incorrect. The students also didn't always link the facts correctly to the sources, so pretty much everything needs checking. Thanks for anything you can do, All best wishes Invertzoo (talk) 22:06, 16 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Very well, it will be my pleasure to do so. In a first glance, I noticed they didn't use one of the main references about brazilian seashells I know about, as well as some others. I'll see what I can do! Thank you for letting me know about this article, Susan! Best wishes always --Daniel Cavallari (talk) 05:01, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

I have done a lot of work on it already, but I ran out of steam and hope you can have a go. If you have the patience, all of their inline citations need checking, to see if the source even said what they claim it does. The citation that the students used the most (unfortunately!) is number 13 on the list. It links here: to the North Carolina envirothon site which is part of North Carolina Wildlife Federation. That is NOT a government agency but a private conservation group. Unfortunately the piece on the Scotch Bonnet was clearly put together by an amateur, and it is riddled with ambiguities and errors, (not the least of which is the top illustration, which has been flipped and thus shows a sinistral shell!) I would prefer not to use this reference at all. The students used it to support 17 facts. These factoids should probably be removed unless we can find another source to support each one. Anything you can do to help with this would be great. Thanks, Invertzoo (talk) 16:59, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

Tambre River
Your article Tambre (river) could be named Tambre River. If you like, I will move it over and make the appropriate redirect. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 13:53, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Fine by me! Do as you see fit.--Daniel Cavallari (talk) 18:34, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

✅ Anna Frodesiak (talk) 02:40, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Lambis
Hello Daniel. Invertzoo suggested that I ask you about this genus. Can I make stubs for the red links on that page? Thanks. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 02:35, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Hi there Anna, I'm glad you asked for my opinion! I believe you should check out the World Register of Marine Species website. It has a fairly reliable list of valid taxa for this genus (as well as several other). If you're going to create new stubs, then I suggest you check out the validity of the taxa in this source first, or else you may end up creating stubs for synonyms. If the taxon is not listed there, then it is most probably a synonym. Many species lists in our genus level articles need some updating, by the way!--Daniel Cavallari (talk) 03:31, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

List of online sources for gastropod info
Hi Daniel, We are putting together a list of reliable online sources, with hints as to what they are good for. Also maybe we will list ones to avoid. Anna requested we do this for her, but I think the info should be put up on the project page or a subpage of the project page once we have the list in OK shape. Could you take a look and add info or tweak it in any way? Thanks, Invertzoo (talk) 16:44, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Hi Susan! Yes, of course. Do you have a link to the list page? --Daniel Cavallari (talk) 13:39, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I am so sorry that I left out the link to the page and glad that you managed to find it anyway! Invertzoo (talk) 22:43, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

Hi
Hi Daniel, I wanted to say that a friend of mine (who I used to work with at AMNH) was here yesterday and I showed him our Project on Wikipedia. He told me that he is going to join Project Gastropods, and I hope he does. His name is Jay Cordeiro and he lives outside of Boston. He now works for NatureServe. When I told him about you, he said that he knows Luiz Ricardo L. Simone who works in malacology at the Museu de Zoologia, University of São Paulo, the same place as you do? Invertzoo (talk) 22:42, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Hi there Susan! Hey that's wonderful news! Unfortunately I don't study in São Paulo Campus. The Museu de Zoologia is located in São Paulo City, and I am studying at Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto, which is located in Ribeirão Preto city, therefore not at the same campus. Professor Simone is one of the most renowned brazilian malacologists, and though we have some friends in common (fellow brazilian scientists), I have never met him. And I certainly look forward to! I just never had the time or the opportunity, but I ought to know him. Thinking about the subject, I believe I could send him an e-mail, and tell him about the project. Do you think it would be a good idea? Best wishes, and thank you for the news! --Daniel Cavallari (talk) 23:14, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

Oh I see, we got it wrong then. Thanks for explaining that to me. Yes, I suppose you could tell Dr. Simone about WikiProject Gastropods, although the project is still in its infancy really. It will hopefully be a lot better in another year or so. On the other hand, if a great malacologist like him was prepared to take a look at the project, he could maybe have some suggestions for us, and that might be very helpful indeed! Invertzoo (talk) 23:58, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

Did you email Dr. Simone? I would encourage you to do that. Best wishes, Invertzoo (talk) 19:13, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, yes I did e-mail him, just yesterday in fact. I hope he will answer me soon.--Daniel Cavallari (talk) 14:52, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Concholepas concholepas
Hi Daniel, thanks for your note, nice to hear from you. And thanks for all your work on all those newly discovered gastropod stubs. Sure, I figure I can help with fixing up this Concholepas article. One thing I should say though, is this: I will be going away for 3 weeks in 3 week's time, on April 14th, and when I am away I will hardly be on Wikipedia at all (if at all). And before then I will be spending some time packing and preparing, because it is both a vacation and a field trip. And right now I am resting a lot because I hurt my knee a bit a few days ago. But other than that, yes I will try to do whatever I can. Invertzoo (talk) 19:12, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

The Strombus Thinker
What a great drawing, it is so charming! Thanks so much for the award, what a nice surprise! Well, if he or she is a Eustrombus gigas maybe she or he is thinking, "I hope my species doesn't go extinct soon; perhaps I can think of a way to make my flesh less tasty to humans!" Invertzoo (talk) 17:45, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Hey I'm really glad you liked it! Drawing it was as fun as I expected. And I wish he/she was successful in his/her intentions, to see such a species vanishing would be heartbreaking... Meanwhile, his close brazilian cousin, Eustrombus goliath, may be facing a much worse fate. I'm skeptic about such things in Brazil, and It is hard for me to believe a serious plan of sustainable exploitation of aquatic resources, specially regarding this species, will ever see the light of day. And If by any miracle it does, It will never have proper management and sufficient funds, and so on... I hope I'm wrong about it =(! --Daniel Cavallari (talk) 03:49, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Oh, the goliath conch must be really something to see, what a great creature! I do hope the species can be protected from extinction!
 * Also, perhaps you won't mind if I point out to you that in English we use a capital letter for adjectives like "Brazilian". Anyway, I will be off to the West Indies in about 3 days, so best wishes to you, Invertzoo (talk) 22:38, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Aye, thank you for the advice, and safe travel Susan!--Daniel Cavallari (talk) 22:42, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Cladogram ready?
Hello Daniel, maybe it is not effective to add cladograms yet. Would you like to add there subgenera also? But I am also always impatient to add new cladograms and then I will realize that some detail could be done better... --Snek01 (talk) 00:51, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Hmm thinking about it, I don't really know... Do you believe it would be important to add the subgenera? As it is, the cladogram already shows the relationships among the taxa, which would be our main point, I think! In any case, if you believe that more info should be added, then you can alter the cladogram in the Strombus article, and I'll follow up and upgrade it in the species articles. We're not running up against time, so there's no need to worry!--Daniel Cavallari (talk) 02:02, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Update on gastropod stub cleanup
Hi Daniel. The Ns are completed and I am now ready to start on the Os. However that may have to wait until I get back from my 3-week trip that starts Wednesday. All these thousands of new stubs make it a little harder to find the old ones that need fixing, but I am not complaining! Best wishes, Invertzoo (talk) 15:09, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Serendipity
López A. S. J. (2005). "La serendipidad en el monitoreo. Microjardín en Microconcha". Gaia 6: 11 pp. PDF

I think that it could be included into serendipity article, but I do not understand the language. --Snek01 (talk) 19:10, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Oh! To tell the truth, I'm not familiar with the subject at all... There's no such word, or even equivalent word in portuguese... Interesting, I'll read through and see what I can add.--Daniel Cavallari (talk) 18:44, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Queen Conch
Good for you Daniel! I wish you success! I will be away, but if I get a chance I will look and see how you are doing with it! Best, Invertzoo (talk) 20:33, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Congrats!
I just happened to see that Eustrombus gigas made it to GA. Congratulations on your excellent work. Geometry guy 16:21, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you! It was no easy task, but I'm glad the reviewer was a very coherent and patient kind of person, and that helped a lot.--Daniel Cavallari (talk) 16:54, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
 * The best reviewers, IMHO, really want to list each article they review as a GA, but calmly resist their wish until the article meets the GA criteria in their view. I was sorry not to be able to list the article in January, but am happy to see it has matured into a nice GA now. Geometry guy 17:19, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I do agree with you! Anyway, your review helped me immensely. When working on the article before this last GA nomination, I focused on the issues you had pointed out. So, you can consider yourself a part of this article's current success! You are as much responsible for this as I, Invertzoo and Snek01 are, and for that I must thank you!--Daniel Cavallari (talk) 17:27, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Many congratulations and well done! I think that's great! I am in the land of conchs right now. Best wishes, Invertzoo (talk) 20:24, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
 * My contribution was very minor, but I'm glad it helped. Geometry guy 20:44, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Congratulations! I have added links to references. Could you verify, please, if they work? --Snek01 (talk) 22:38, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks! I had added ingentaconnect links to these articles before, but it happens to be that you can't stablish external links to their website =/ after a short period of time, they become unavailable. So its no use! I'll have to revert it.--Daniel Cavallari (talk) 22:40, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
 * But have you checked these ones? --Snek01 (talk) 22:47, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Oh you linked to the abstracts! And they seem to work, in fact... Ok, reverted my reversion... (kinda confusing x_X)--Daniel Cavallari (talk) 23:02, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
 * There are two ways how to link to Ingenta: on the right menu there is a "Linking options" providing either "IngentaConnect" link and OpenURL. --Snek01 (talk) 23:59, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Upright
Hello Daniel, the best (and standard) way of reducing thumb size (if needed) is to use parameter upright Picture tutorial:. Note that the second image has much different ratio of width:height of the image, so there is different upright parameter. (There is even possible to use much detailed upright, for example 0.564 and so on, so there is possible to show all thumbs in same height if needed.) For example I have reduced tall images in List of non-marine molluscs of Dominica with this different upright parameters to generate these thumbs in approximately same size. I have also made bigger localition map in that article with this parameter. You should use this instead of fixed width in your other articles. When changing image size, only this can guarantee, that images will be viewed as optimally as possible. --Snek01 (talk) 10:03, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Hey Michal! Thank you for the hint and enlightening explanation. I really didn't knew! That will be most useful in my future articles, that's for sure! --Daniel Cavallari (talk) 21:53, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Gastropods in the Signpost
"WikiProject Report" would like to focus on WikiProject Gastropods for a Signpost article to be published in early May. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Also, if you know anyone else who would like to participate in the interview, please share this with them. Have a great day. -Mabeenot (talk) 19:24, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you for letting me know! I'll be happy to contribute.--Daniel Cavallari (talk) 23:51, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Professor
Hi Daniel, yes my trip is going very well. I have recorded over 100 until-now-unrecorded species for one island, about 10 for another and one more island I am going to next Monday and hope to do well there. I am mostly only looking at shells rather than live animals, but I am finding species I have never seen before, so that is very interesting. Have you ever seen Trimusculus carinatus? Do you know what it looks like?

Wow! That is very exciting indeed about Professor Simone! I hope he understands that we cannot use original research on Wikipedia, so all the anatomical descriptions have to be able to be linked to published work. All the photos can be original though.

In terms of time, I don't know whether you know how to upload images to Wikimedia, or can learn how, and maybe Prof Simone could email the images to you and you could upload them, that would save him a lot of time. Also maybe he could email you the prose too, and once it was in English you could email some to me, and some to Snek, and we could share the work of wikifying them. Maybe we can think of other ideas. Right now it is very hot in this house so my brain is not working well! Best wishes, Invertzoo (talk) 20:00, 27 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Hello Daniel, the most easy way of this is like this:


 * If his images are on a website already, he can release them of that website under CC-BY-SA or under CC-BY or under public domain license, stating this on that website. If images are in books, he can send an email to OTRS with permission and you will have to scan them. Or he can send them to you on the DVD or by email (also with permission to OTRS). Alternatively he can upload them to Commons by himself.
 * If he have a website (I have found no one), then he can release some of his scientific articles/publications under CC-BY-SA or by CC-BY license, stating this on that website (this is effective and easily verifiable). Alternatively he can send a permission to texts to OTRS (Requesting copyright permission). If he has a different strategy with texts, we will see when he will register on the wikipedia as an user. --Snek01 (talk) 21:37, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

Uploading images
Hello Daniel. I am having trouble uploading images over 1MB. I see you have uploaded many. Snek often helps. I email him the images and he uploads them for me. However, I don't want to bother him too much. I don't know how your connection is there, or if you pay for your service by the kb. If you can, and it is no trouble or expense to you, I would really appreciate your help. My email is annaswikiaccount@gmail.com If you can't, no worries at all. Thank you.

Anna Frodesiak (talk) 08:24, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

Trimusculus
This is a genus sometimes called button shells or button snails. It is a false limpet, a marine pulmonate. And I mean fully marine! You can read a little bit about them at Trimusculidae. When I lived in Southern California there was one species that was quite common there in the low intertidal, the shell about 15 mm in size, plain white, round, not very elevated, radially ribbed. Actually very interesting-looking, very different from any other gastropod.

In Brazil you have some pulmonate marine limpets in the Siphonariidae. Maybe you are familiar with them?

Invertzoo (talk) 12:36, 30 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Had I the opportunity, I'd really like to see a Trimusculus specimen! Siphonariidae? Ah, yes, those I am quite familiar with! I have to check this out, but I may have half a dozen siphonariid shells in my personal collection (all of the same species, If I remember well). --Daniel Cavallari (talk) 02:01, 1 May 2010 (UTC)


 * I hope to make an image of one of the shells of the Trimusculus species from Southern California, that is assuming I can find the material in my apartment. I want to make an image of one for Wikipedia, that is, when I finally get round to it. I am still trying to recover from coming back from my trip right now. It can't be jet lag because there is no time difference where we went but I swear there are latitudinal effects with travel dislocation as well as longitudinal ones. All good wishes, Invertzoo (talk) 22:12, 6 May 2010 (UTC)


 * I managed to find my Trimusculus reticulatus shell from last year in California to photograph, and I hope to take the picture within a day or so. I also found some good images online. Remember that the shells of adults are only 12-20 mm across. Plus remember that they are Eupulmonata, not like Siphonaria, which is Basommatophora! Pretty cool!


 * Here is a group of live ones green with algae, in reality the shells are white.[]
 * Here is a good closeup of a live one


 * Best and once again, congratulations, Invertzoo (talk) 20:48, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

Amphidromus hook
Hello Daniel, would you like to help with better Amphidromus hook, please? Template_talk:Did_you_know (also sent to Invertzoo) --Snek01 (talk) 19:18, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

File:Tofu stacked 01.jpg listed for deletion
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Tofu stacked 01.jpg, has been listed at Files for deletion. Please see the to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted.
 * Hi Daniel. I don't really know why they wanted it deleted but it will remain. Snek voted to save it because he is awesome. Thanks. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 14:20, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Aaah that's good to know indeed! That image is very informative in my humble opinion! --Daniel Cavallari (talk) 19:34, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

Genus articles
Copied from SunCreator's talk page:
 * Thanks for barging in Daniel, that was very helpful! Yes I agree that Marginella is a pretty good genus article in general, although not perfect. One basic criticism, the lede section needs to include an outline of the rest of the article contents. But perhaps you and I can maybe try to get that article up to GA status? Best, Invertzoo (talk) 02:05, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
 * That's absolutely possible, of course! I'll look out for any info I can find on the genus, as soon as I get to the museum! I'm sure there's plenty of material there.--Daniel Cavallari (talk) 19:35, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

Our fauna in the Gulf of Mexico
Gastropods, fish and all of the other organisms. Yes it's absolutely a disaster of global proportions. I can't bear to think about what is happening to the whole fauna. Invertzoo (talk) 00:26, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I can't help but imagine some of the consequences... And yet I can't really grasp them, to be honest. I'm just so sad about it I wish I could go there and stop that leaking myself! Do you happen to know about any wiki-coverage on the possible ecological consequences of this disaster? --Daniel Cavallari (talk) 02:19, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
 * In the main article under Deepwater Horizon oil spill there are currently two not very long sections, one on ecological effects and one on impacts on fisheries. I do think it is currently impossible to predict fully the ecological consequences, especially as the disaster is still ongoing, it would be just speculation at this point, and to be fair, the far-reaching impacts of this kind of massive disaster are not well understood. One could look at the article on the Exxon Valdez oil spill, which was much smaller, but "Almost 20 years after the spill, a team of scientists at the University of North Carolina found that the effects are lasting far longer than expected.[20] The team estimates some shoreline Arctic habitats may take up to 30 years to recover." The herring fishery there never recovered. Invertzoo (talk) 12:50, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
 * This "Wired" article from 2009 is quite good: . Invertzoo (talk) 12:52, 6 June 2010 (UTC)