Dear Conch-lers,

 My husband and I have just recently joined this list from Hungary. We are
interested in everything that concerns marine life (especially coral reefs,
 mangroves and seagrass beds).
Our usual destination is the Red Sea in Egypt.

 Regarding Jan's question:
 Last Oct-Nov. when we were in Egypt we wanted to learn something more about
 the bivalves of the region. For the identification of species encountered
we
 used the following book:
 P.Graham Oliver: Bivalved Seashells of the Red Sea
 It is - as far as an amatouer can judge - an excellent one. It gets started
 with an introduction to help identification then comes a key to the higher
 taxa of bivalves then it goes through each orders, families and species
etc.
 There are tons of explanatory drawings and 46 colour plates with
 approximately 400 species. I can suggest this useful book to everybody.

 If you are interested I can tell you from where you can get this book.

 Now comes the "need help" part.
 I wonder whether any of You have experience concerning bivalves of the Red
 Sea, especially Aquaba Bay.
 Did You run any research / bivalve monitoring in that region, do You know
about a good reference
 collection, species inventory list etc.?
 Thanks in advance and warmest regards from cold Hungary
 Hajni (Hajnalka Kovacs)
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