Rethymnon op Kreta, Griekenland

We spend our summer holiday on the island Crete in Rethymnon. Several beaches were visited but we hardly found any shells. We also tried to find interesting grit samples for microshells. Apart from one minor spot with some coastal species like Paludinella globularis and Circulus striatus we were not very successful. One day my wife Els walked to the fishing harbour were she had found one Palliolum incomparabile. The last day of our stay on Rethymon we checked the fishingnets in the harbour but didn’t find anything. I decided to gather about a liter of rubbish, with coral and fish scales, from the nets to take home. I washed the sample and dried it in a nylon stocking. Back home we put it under the microscope and found dozens of interesting whitish shells species, obviously from at least a depth of 100 meter.