3.9 Snails
• Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, FL. John Slapcinsky is conducting work on the family Zonitidae of western North Carolina; computerized collections.
• Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA. Tim Pearce has a very large land snail collection which should be reviewed for North Carolina records.
• Ohio State Museum of Zoology. Tom Watters has a computerized collection of land snails that may contain information on western North Carolina species.
Te Freshwater Mollusk Conservation Society (molluskconservation.org) is dedicated to the conservation of and advocacy for freshwater mollusks, North America’s most imper- iled taxon. Te organization publishes Walkerana: Te Journal of the Freshwater Mollusk Conservation Society , newsletters, and reports. A recent publication by Dourson (2013) provides an inventory of the land snails found in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and Southern Appalachians. Other published resources include older materials such as: • Bayard Burch J. 1962. How to know the eastern land snails. Picture-keys for determin- ing the land snails of the United States occurring east of the Rocky Mountain Divide . Dubuque (IA): William C. Brown Co. • Bayard Burch J, Shrader Van Devender A. 1980. Identifcation of eastern North American land snails. Te Prosobranchia, Opisthobranchia and Pulmonata (Actophila) . Ann Arbor (MI): University of Michigan. • Bayard Burch J. 1982. Freshwater snails (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of North America . EPA-600/3-82-026. Cincinnati (OH): US Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Monitoring and Support Laboratory. • Hubricht L. 1985. Te distributions of the native land mollusks of the eastern United States . FieldianaZoology , new ser. no. 24. Available online at http://www.biodiversityli- brary.org/bibliography/3329#/summary. 3.9.8 Recommendations In general, protection and restoration of natural community composition and function and protection of surrounding natural areas under current conditions are the best ways to ensure suitable habitats are available for this taxon. Measures that protect a large and diverse pool of populations are the best way to ensure that species are able to survive future stresses and adapt to changing climate conditions.
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