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telophase ([personal profile] telophase) wrote2007-09-27 08:10 pm
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More photos!

I've got the last photos from my camera before it finally quit working entirely processed and posted:

http://www.magatsu.net/gallery/v/Japan2007/

It's the last two albums, the Inari Shrine in Kyoto and Kyoto and Temples.

[livejournal.com profile] rachelmanija is going to mail me the SD cards from her digital camera, and once I get them I'll download them with my SD card reader and post them, but it'll probably be a week or so before that happens. So you'll have to wait to see photos of the fox shrine we found until then. :D
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[personal profile] chisotahn 2007-09-28 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
Lovely! I've really, really enjoyed looking at your photographs. Thanks for sharing them!

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2007-09-28 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you and you're welcome! XD

[identity profile] darksumomo.livejournal.com 2007-09-28 04:47 pm (UTC)(link)
The snail in DSC_120 is really cool. In a previous life, I was a snail expert, and that photo makes me wish I could identify it. How big was it, about the size of a quarter?

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2007-09-28 04:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe even a little bit bigger - it was huge.

[identity profile] darksumomo.livejournal.com 2007-09-28 05:20 pm (UTC)(link)
My geekiness scientific curiosity overcame me, as I found an online gallery of Japanese snails and looked for likely matches.

http://shell.kwansei.ac.jp/~shell/pic_book/shape12.html

The likely candidates are as follows:

Euhadra herklotsi kirishimensis Kuroda, 1936
http://shell.kwansei.ac.jp/~shell/pic_book/data44/r004322.html
(This is probably the best match in terms of shell, but there are problems with matching the body. The one in the photo has distinctive dark tentacles and flanks.)

Euhadra herklotsi herklotsi (Martens, 1860)
http://shell.kwansei.ac.jp/~shell/pic_book/data25/r002487.html
(Shell is a bit rough to be yours.)

Euhadra eoa communisiformis Kanamaru, 1940
http://shell.kwansei.ac.jp/~shell/pic_book/data25/r002488.html
(There are problems with the body for this one, too.)

Euhadra sigeonis Kuroda, 1944
http://shell.kwansei.ac.jp/~shell/pic_book/data23/r002293.html
(The shell's about right, but the body isn't, so I have my doubts)

I'm going to quit now. I'm pretty sure I have the right genus, but I'm not sure about the species. Hope that helps!

[identity profile] darksumomo.livejournal.com 2007-09-28 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I looked at DSC_119 and got a sense of scale. FWIW, all the snails I thought it could be were ~40 mm, about 1.6 inches, in diameter.

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2007-09-28 05:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, the first and last ones seem the most like it to me, going by shell patterns. If I remember, when I get home I'll crop the original photo in and post the snail itself larger (I wasn't wasting time by cropping photos for the gallery, otherwise I'd never get them all up).
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