.. won't win an Oscar for my spelling, will I! Ya think I'd get it right with the book open? Interestingly enough I had to check more than one "Abbott" book for the correct spelling of "Cyrtopleura costata" Hmm... maybe it is Perticola ??? and it is some obscure genus for an endemic f/w bivalve? and P. pholadiformis just happens to be the species??? There is a lot of interesting taxa that comes out of Hollywood! Hah! Leslie ------------------------------------------ Petricola of course... Lubosh www.kolouch.com ------------------------------------------------------------- Per a documentary I watched last night, The "Angel Wing" clam Perticola pholadiformis (Lamarck, 1818) is fresh-water and endemic to the Niger River, Mali Land, Africa! Well gang, Hollywood has done it again. The new adventure film "Sahara" has Malacological blundered big time! Ok, so it's not really a documentary. What was actually shown was about a 7 inch Florida - Gulf of Mexico "Angel's Wings" Cyrtopleura costata (Linné, 1758)... Perticola pholadiformis is the "False Angel's Wings" and is only about 2" or less. I guess that isn't much worse than the large polished down to the nacre, "Umboinum giganteum" that we saw on the Hellenistic shores of the movie set for "Troy" last year... which was filmed in the Sea of Cortez, Mexico. Cheers, Leslie ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [log in to unmask] - a forum for informal discussions on molluscs To leave this list, click on the following web link: http://listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=conch-l&A=1 Type your email address and name in the appropriate box and click leave the list. ----------------------------------------------------------------------