26 to 29 April 2006 Conchology Society Field Trip Field Meeting to Anglesey  Conchological Society of GB & Ireland The primary aim of the meeting is to record molluscs from the intertidal of Anglesey and Lleyn Peninsula - but I am sure that there will be opportunities to record other taxa. Julia Nunn Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland Since the post 1991 marine molluscan survey of Anglesey was started, 47 new records for the area have been confirmed. Some of these are Graphis albida, Alvania beanii, Alvania carinata, Sepia elegans, Sepia orbigniana and Rissoa lilacina. Some records have only being previously recorded from western Ireland and north and west Scotland. This may be due to the possible existence of deep water off the end of the Lleyn Peninsula. The purpose of this meeting is to examine some of the hot spot areas on the south Anglesey and lower north Lleyn Peninsula coasts with particular interest in shell sand as this is where many of the new records have been turning up. The group will be looking at two areas on south west Anglesey, i.e. Aberffraw, and Rhosneigr and Porth Dinllaen on the Lleyn Peninsula. The latter is a uniquely sheltered location and hosts a large area of Eelgrass, Zostera marina. There will also be two non marine sites on Anglesey at Llyn Maelog and also at Newborough Warren which will be the first meeting point for the group at the car park adjacent to Llyn Rhos-ddu SH 426 647 at 10.00 am on Wednesday 26 April 2006. From there the group will move on to Aberffraw to meet at the dunes car park at SH 357 690 at 1.00 pm for the first marine event. Full programs can be obtained from Tom Clifton. .  Conchological Society Programme of Events (Link)

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