Hi Andrew As of last spring (April?), that shell is in the collections of the Houston Museum of Natural Science... acquired for the paltry sum over half a years wages! It is registered as the world record in (Pisor's & Hutsell's World Register of Record Shells). There is an article in Hawaiian Shell News (can't cite it at the moment) on it from back when Don acquired it. If memory serves, he found it in a someone’s yard in Taiwan. So no telling how little he paid for it. Also, remember, chances are there are bigger ones out there in other private collections, probably of someone who has no clue what they have. Leslie ------------------------- So the 1m specimen is just a rumor? Andrew Grebneff ------------------------- 772.0mm owned by Don Pisor in San Diego, California. Regards, Paul Kanner ------------------------- Does anyone know the reference for the largest known specimen of the turbinellid Syrinx aruanus? I have seen claims that a 1m (40") specimen is known, but no evidence to back this up. If true, that makes it bigger than the longest known other species, the paris Basin Eocene campanilid Campanile giganteus at 0.95m. A one-meter snail shell... beats the 0.625m specimen I've just snagged by a wee margin... Andrew Grebneff