Dear friends, I wish to thank those who reacted and in particular Jim Miller and Ron Noseworthy which provided me with very interesting information. It seems that I've got a bunch of chinese maricultured Argopecten irradians irradians (probably escaped into the wild)from the North Yellow Sea,Shandong Province-China.If I find somewhere some "bivalve" webspace I can put some pictures of these magnificent colored shells. Happy shelling to you all, Eddy WILMET www.euromurex.be ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------