Dear All,
        Tonight the Lost Coast Shell Club, of Humboldt Co., California, had
a meeting and during the discussion of unusual species, a Brechetes
stangulatus was shown by one of the members.  A question about the "siphon"
was raised as to what it "really was".  Is it a siphonal canal, which holds
the soft siphon or is it "the siphon" which grows as the shell grows.  I
know that the shell is very tiny but the specimen brought great questions
to its biological functions.  Has anyone ever done an anatomical study of
the family of Clavagellidae?
Thanks for any help that can be given.
Dan
p.s. Ain't Nature wonderful?

Dan, Hiromi & Kuma Yoshimoto
1164 Vista Dr.
Eureka, California
95503-6018
U.S.A.

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