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Hello Nancy,
These are the bony inside parts of the animal of Scaphander. I don't
remember how many per animal there are, but I do recall myself packing
these up together with the Scaphander shells for trading purposes, when
I was just a shell-innocent kid helping with his mothers collection...
Regards,
Jan Haspeslagh
Belgium
Nancy Smith wrote:
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> Hi peoples! Please go here:
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> http://www.geocities.com/conchlimages/NancySmith.html
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> The link will take you to my page on Ross' site where there is
> pictured a set of four odd looking things. I got them along with a
> Scaphander lignaria and someone suggested it was the operculum however
> I didn't think this species had an operc. If you think it looks
> familiar, let me know and I'll email you the full size image. The
> "things" are from 22 to 27 mm in length, are slightly domed in shape
> (height of about 5 mm), concave on one side and convex on the other,
> showing concentric lines but not really a spiral (not that I can tell
> anyway). The convex side has the brown 'ring' that looked like the
> attachment point of a foot but that's a guess. They're a shelly,
> calcareous type of material but appear sort of weak (you can see in
> the larger image that some are cracked towards the center and that one
> is damaged on its periphery). The edges are irregular and are
> somewhat 'curly' like a potato chip. (nice scientific descriptions
> here, huh?)
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> Thanks in advance to everyone,
>
> Nancy
>
> "Websitium operculata" is located at:
> http://personal.mia.bellsouth.net/mia/n/a/nansaidh/
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