Description: Greatly excited at the thought of discovering a southern variant of a Porcelain snail (Rhachistia), I emailed these shots to Dai Herbert who quickly disabused me of my boyish enthusiasm. 15mm shell on Scadoxis leaf. Morning after heavy rains washed usual thin dust-like shell-coating clean.
Description: Spire 22mm long. Found attached to a grass stem. No sign of life. A hardened secretion closed the mouth of the shell, but it looks like an epiphragm rather than an operculum.
Description: The pale, conical, snail on the left, feeding with the darker, keeled E.carinifera (Keeled Bark Snail) and escaping a predatory Common Cannibal (Natalina cafra) in the last pic.
Description: About 15mm shell-length, feeding early on drizzly morning on a hideous stew of what looks like dead leaf, hadeda poop and tangled dog-fur.
