I think I posted this a few years ago but my favorite scene in a movie involving a mollusk was in "The Black Robe" wherein a Native American chief or shaman cuts off the fingers of a missionary with a razor sharp giant floater shell (Pyganodon grandis). Very Cool. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0101465 -- Kevin S. Cummings Illinois Natural History Survey 607 E. Peabody Drive Champaign, IL 61820 [log in to unmask] http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/cbd/collections/mollusk.html The Mussel Database Project http://clade.acnatsci.org/mussel/ Join the Freshwater Mollusk Conservation Society Today! http://ellipse.inhs.uiuc.edu/fmcs/