| Josh,
Great to hear from you here, and like everyone else look forward to meeting someday.
'Black-Lipped' vs. 'Black Lip', quite easy to research on the internet, S. Echinata is a smaller edible oyster (about 6") native to NE Australia (Hervey Bay and to the north), and without a doubt carries the moniker 'Black Lip.' Shell has a very distinctive black and apparently non-nacreous border (stark boundary, as though it were two pieces joined), with a brilliant and fairly thick nacre middle. Hopefully I'll be able to get into the store again and take a photo, as a shell w/mabe is used for display with the pieces.
Steve |