Jan,
 
The current record listed in the Registry for Pecten maximus is 197.9mm
held by Rene Vanwalleghem.
 
K. Hutsell
Registry of World Record Size Shells
Snail's Pace Productions
 
Jan Haspeslagh wrote:
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> Subject: Purple Dye & size records & help for articles
> Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 07:38:03 +0200
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> Dear Conch-Lers,
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> Maybe I'm just telling what everybody knows, but am I right in telling
> that here in Europe, also our most common Nucella lapillus was used by
> the Romans to colour their luxury clothing ?
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> Regarding another tread going on here on record sizes of shells : I have
> in my possession for the moment a Pecten maximus measuring 19,2 cm. Can
> anybody inform me on record sizes for this clam ?
>
> Third question concerns my studies. I'm a librarian and I'm taking
> evening courses in information technology and retrieval. We need to do a
> paper on availability of scientific papers (full text) on Internet. We
> have to pick a subject ourselves and then have to find at least tree
> relevant articles of scientific value on the net. Can anybody point me
> out to URL's containing articles on malacology or related subjects. The
> articles don't have to be recent. Last ten years will do very fine.
>
> Thanks a lot (3 x) in advance,
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> have a nice weekend
>
> Jan Haspeslagh
> Belgium
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