Hi,

A question about Limas. I just saw a couple of live
limas in the local pet shop and for the first time
I saw their amazing light display:

First one edge of the mantle flouresces with a thin
neon blue line, then that one turns off and the
other mantle edge dones the same. The whole display
is amazing and looks exactly like a neon sign flashing
on and off. Wow!

Can anyone explain to me how this fantastic feat is
accomplished? Is it done by bioluminsecent micro-organisms
like in deep sea fish, or by some other means. How
is it timed so perfectly?

Peter Egerton,
Vexed in Vancouver


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Peter Egerton, Vancouver, Canada
Collector of worldwide Mollusca,
student of zoology and computers for life.
The beginnings of my website:
http://www.intergate.bc.ca/personal/seashell/index.html
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