Hi Harry!

I'm a beginner where carriers are concerned and my collection is small, but I
have one shell that might have been attached live. Unfortunately, I'm moving
and I packed my Xenos away yesterday, so I can't look at the shell in
question, but I collected one in the Abacos (another fab Cordy outing) that
had both halves of a bivalve on it. I'm not sure of the species, but it was
one of the more delicate Lucine clams. Definitely not pensylvanica, but maybe
orbicularis. Afraid I'm a real "duh" when it comes to bivalves.

This is the nicest self-collected Xeno I have. Of the twenty-five or so that
I have collected, more than two thirds of them are veterans indeed; long-dead
battle-scarred old gnarly ones. I had looked for years without finding any
Xenophoras so I'm really excited when I find any. I even keep fragments.

The little clam on this choice specimen is dime-sized and gem. It was
attached in a horizontal position and closed. The clam was not alive when I
found the snail. Do you think it might have been alive when it was attached?

Ellen Bulger
Fellow Xenophora Fancier