Hello Nancy,

These are the bony inside parts of the animal of Scaphander. I don't
remember how many per animal there are, but I do recall myself packing
these up together with the Scaphander shells for trading purposes, when
I was just a shell-innocent kid helping with his mothers collection...

Regards,

Jan Haspeslagh
Belgium

Nancy Smith wrote:
>
> Hi peoples! Please go here:
>
> http://www.geocities.com/conchlimages/NancySmith.html
>
> The link will take you to my page on Ross' site where there is
> pictured a set of four odd looking things.   I got them along with a
> Scaphander lignaria and someone suggested it was the operculum however
> I didn't think this species had an operc.   If you think it looks
> familiar, let me know and I'll email you the full size image.   The
> "things" are from 22 to 27 mm in length, are slightly domed in shape
> (height of about 5 mm), concave on one side and convex on the other,
> showing concentric lines but not really a spiral (not that I can tell
> anyway).   The convex side has the brown 'ring' that looked like the
> attachment point of a foot but that's a guess.   They're a shelly,
> calcareous type of material but appear sort of weak (you can see in
> the larger image that some are cracked towards the center and that one
> is damaged on its periphery).    The edges are irregular and are
> somewhat 'curly' like a potato chip.  (nice scientific descriptions
> here, huh?)
>
> Thanks in advance to everyone,
>
> Nancy
>
> "Websitium operculata" is located at:
> http://personal.mia.bellsouth.net/mia/n/a/nansaidh/