Hi Andy,

I thought there'd be plenty of responses already....

As I remember it, I found several different species of coral-boring clams in 1969 when I spent the summer on Big Pine Key and vicinity. I've also found coral- and rock-boring clams in various locales in the West Indies and in North Carolina.

I saw enough that I waited for a small manageable piece to take home rather than start hammering at the shoreline. Sometimes specimens can be carefully extracted without breaking the substrate. Breakage is easy in any case.

David Kirsh

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Man's attitude toward nature is today critically important simply because we have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. - Rachel Carson, early 1960s

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