I have found muscosus - only dead - in good pairs off of Boynton Beach diving
in 95 feet of water.
Otherwise all our specimens came from the scallop dump off of  Port Canaveral
were covered with sponge in various colors and in pairs.
 
Jim Miller wrote:
 
> Thanks all for helping me out with the Shark's Eye dilemma. I am trying
> several different approaches because I just got a truly huge one that came
> up with the Calico scallops yesterday (just at three inches -- as big as
> I've ever seen, but I'll bet someone out there has a bigger specimen).
>
> Meanwhile, here's another one to toss at you (and I know you'll come
> through on this one, too). When they are offloading the scallop boats, I
> find lots of single valves (one to two inch) of Aequipecten muscosus in an
> amazing assortment of colors: lemon yellow, dayglow orange, plum, rose and
> scarlet red. The only double I've ever found was washed up on Sanibel and
> it was covered with a coating of sponge -- I almost missed it, but the
> shape gave it away (wonder how many people walked past it that day without
> a glance?).
>
> So, has anyone out there ever find one "in the wild?" There were several at
> the shell shops but none had much information except something like "found
> 2 miles south of Sanibel in 50 ft. of water."
>
> Any information would be appreciated. And any dealers out there with nice
> specimens, let me know, okay?
>
> Thanks as always,
> Jim Miller
> Tallahassee, Florida
 
--
Jim and Bobbi Cordy
of Merritt Island, Florida.
 
Jim Specializes in Self-Collected
Caribbean & Florida Shells
 
Bobbi in Shell Creations