Thank you Paul!!!! I'll be sure to watch out for them flying squid, BTW,
what do they call a group o squid? A squish? A squirm? a bucket of squid?
ferret
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Date: Friday, August 20, 1999 12:40 AM
Subject: Re: Fastest mollusks


>Fastest mollusks?  Squid, far and away.  So fast that when they are
swimming
>toward the surface, especially when being pursued by predators, they may
leap
>out of the water and soar 30 to 50 feet, perhaps more.  I almost got nailed
>by one once when I was on a ship.  The thing slammed into the bulkhead
>(that's a wall, for you landlubbers) about ten feet from me.
>Fastest gastropods?  Seahares (family Aplysiidae) get my vote.  Some of
them
>can outswim a diver with fins.
>Fastest bivalves?  Pectens probably.  When they clap their two shell valves
>together they can zigzag through the water at a pretty good clip, though I
>never saw one that could outswim me.
>Paul M.
>