This was about 3 inches in length, the C. brevifrons was a bit longer. I left all the live shells due to the presence of conscientious dive masters; my greed didn't prevail. (And I couldn't locate other live Voluta musica or C. brevifrons in shallow water this trip).

I did score a near perfect wine-red Lyropecten nodosus pair at Los Frailes. And there will probably be pictures of some of these mollusks underwater.

David



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From: "Schweikert, Brian CONT" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sep 10, 2004 9:04 AM
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Subject: Re: Margarita highlight

WOW, thats musta been pretty neat to see. V. musica is one of the larger ones' isnt it. How big was the speciemen you saw?

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