Hey Dan Thanks for this page! In the last 6 years I have finally begun collecting Unionids. The only near to Houston collecting I have done is Mustang Bayou in Alvin, near College Station on the Little Brazos, and Lake Summerville ... and I have yet to ID the materials. In recent years I have also acquired old collections materials from around Houston with no or questionable IDs. Given the lack of ID, the Unionid exhibit I am currently displaying in the Brazoria County Fair (in Angleton, Texas) has little or no Houston area material. (the fair ends 10/21). Would have been nice to have my act together better for local materials. I really need to get working on that while what is left of the faded or bug eaten labels are still somewhat legible. Dan, FYI, our Shell Club Meeting is 7/7:30 tonight in the Houston Museum of Natural Science, downstairs conference room, ... Come on out if you can! Thanks, Leslie Allen Crnkovic `·...¸.><((((º>`·.¸¸.·´¯`·...¸.><((((º> Houston, Texas ---------------------------- Dan Johnson wrote: Don't know how many people in this group are interested in freshwater mussels. Anyhow, I've been working on a web page to photographically document all the species of bivalves that occur in the vicinity of Houston, TX, which is where I live. Here is my web page: http://www.io.com/~danjohns/bivalves/houston_bivalves.html . At this point I've documented about 40% of the mussels that could occur in this area. If any of you are really good at mussels in this area and don't mind taking a look, I would be happy to hear that something is misidentified. Thanks. --Dan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------