At 00:38 15-4-1999 EDT, you wrote:
>Strombus samba appears to be an old S. gigas, however Clench says the animal
>of S. samba is black and the animal of S. gigas is red.  Anyone care to
>comment on that?
>
On Curacao (Dutch Antils) I see the fishermen bring in cleanded animals of
S.gigas. They were all gray, not red. In the supermarket the same color.
Maybe the youngsters are red, the parents gray and the granny's black?
Alex from The Low Lands.