Dear Doug,
 
I can't help you on the taxonomic matters other than to have you consider an
Indo-Pacific origin and look through Joe Rosewater's monograph in
Indo-Pacific Mollusca 1(4): 175-226. (Sept. 28, 1961).
 
You may have the largest shelled mollusk in the Western Hemisphere!
 
Harry
 
At 02:48 AM 1/13/98 EST, you wrote:
>Dear CONCH-Lers,
>         I am working on an Atrina from the northern Gulf of Mexico that has
>been trawled from 90 - 120 fathoms and attains a shell length of approximately
>60 centimeters (2 feet).  I need to see some comparative material of a couple
>of similar species:  Atrina maura (Sowerby, 1835) and Atrina oldroydi (Dall,
>1901), both from the Eastern Pacific.  Abbott in American Seashells 2nd
>edition, states that A. oldroydi may be a synonym of A. maura, but his
>illustration of A. maura is actually the illustration Dall used in his
>description of A. oldroydi.   I would appreciate any comments, and even more
>so the loan or opportunity to purchase specimens of these two "species".
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Douglas N. Shelton
Harry G. Lee
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