Dear listers,

Jaxshells.com webmeister, Bill Frank, pointed out an Internet report
related to Peggy Williams' inquiry: <http://www.jaxshells.org/malacoph.htm>.

To Dick Petit: That Homer Simpson certainly is quite the Philosopher.

Harry


At 01:57 PM 12/21/2005, you wrote:
>Dear listers
>
>We've heard of great quantities of shells being ingested by batfish, etc.
>How do they extract the meat? What happens to the shells after the meat is
>gone? Does stomach acid eat them up or are they expelled by the fish?
>
>I've gotten five largish turrids that were in a fish stomach. They're all
>in pretty good shape, except the lips are broken back. Would that have
>happened when the fish ate the shell, or might it be an earlier fight with
>a crab or something??
>
>Peggy

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