User talk:Invertzoo/Archive 45

Hi. I am inviting members of some WikiProjects to take part in evaluating their projects in order to help the Wikimedia Foundation better understand such projects from the inside, to encourage reflection on best practices, and to compile a list of best practices as recommended by a number of projects. I am contacting you because you are listed as an active member of Wikipedia:WikiProject Gastropods. Having witnessed that project's work in the past in my volunteer capacity, I'd very much like to include it. I hope that you will have time and interest in participating. As much or as little as you would like to supply would be gratefully received. The assessment questions are posted at Wikipedia:WikiProject Gastropods/Self-assessment. I will myself steer clear of the page until after any discussion seems to have become dormant, at which point I will ask questions to make sure that I am developing a good overview of opinions. Thanks.--Maggie Dennis (WMF) (talk) 12:55, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

(I've taken your suggestion. :D --Maggie Dennis (WMF)(talk) 12:55, 7 September 2011 (UTC))

I was glad you changed the caption on the image I included in Adamsia palliata. The artist had not bothered to check on details at all. Quite apart from the Nautilus shell, the hermit crab is the wrong colour and morphology and the several sea anemones riding pickaback are nothing like the single specimen that is actually attached to the underside. Originally I planned to include the word "inaccurate" in the image caption but rejected the idea. If there was a photograph available it would be altogether preferable, and I only included this image on the (doubtful) grounds that any image is better than none.

What I would have been interested to discover but could not, was what happens when a large hermit crab moves into a different shell. Does the sea anemone disembark and settle on the new one or does it remain attached to the empty shell. What of the crab? How does it acquire another anemone if it left the first one behind? Or does the anemone build extra capacity into the shell so efficiently that the hermit crab never outgrows it? Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:06, 8 September 2011 (UTC)