Tom Eichhorst wrote: <I assume Art will be back with his pigs as they are definitely related to shells -- it is a shell guy who talks about them after all.> Tom, the fact that Art is a shell guy doesn't necessarily mean that pigs are shell-related. However, if you look into the issue more deeply, I'm sure you will have to conclude, as I have, that a real relationship does exist between porcine aeronautics and molluscan matters. For example, take the land snail HelicoSTYla pitHOGaster. Can it be a mere conicidence that this single molluscan name includes two obvious porcine references? Then there is Conus ximenes maHOGani, Conus litHOGlyphus, and the land snail genus HelmintHOGlypta. Need I say more? OK, I will. Macroceras cresPIGnyi is a little land snail from the Philippines. Many of us are familiar whth the common genera HAMinoea and CHAMa, as well as Calliostoma cunningHAMi, Cypraea HAMmondae, and Fulgoraria HAMillei. Oh - and let's not forget Siphonaria BACONi. Porcine habitat has been repeatedly commemorated in such names as STYliola, Terebra STYlata, and Xanthomelon pachySTYlum. Not to be overlooked is Latiaxis nakayaSUI. And, as final irrefutable evidence, consider the overwheming number of shell names followed by the name SOWerby. I rest my case. Paul M.