The shells provide an archive of the environments in which the molluscs lived, and evolutionary trends and relationships are explored. The bulk of this book is devoted to six of the eight classes ...

Living members of Mollusca represent the broadest morphological disparity of any animal phylum: mollusc body plans encompass squid, worms, living rocks and candy-coloured tree snails, as well as ...

The Arctic deep sea offers economic potential but poses serious ecological threats. A new study urges collaboration for its ...

The body of this species is 10 cm long and the shell is 5–7 cm. The shell color is off-white or faded pink. The shell is slightly larger and more elongated than that of Euglandina rosea, though ...

A Treasure Trove of Biodiversity and Economic Resources The Arctic Ocean, with its diverse habitats and vast reserves of oil, ...

concerned the phylum Arthropoda, which includes isopods and copepods, among others, followed by annelids and sponges. The latter are surpassed by mollusks in species richness," adds Saeedi.

I am also an active promoter of international research efforts around this faunistic group and the current (IUCN/SSC) Coordinator of the Red-List Authority on Freshwater Bivalves within the Molluscs ...

Nudibranchs, or sea slugs, are soft-bodied marine gastropod mollusks. Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute senior scientists Bruce Robison and Steven Haddock first encountered the odd animal ...

Maybe the most striking feature of mollusks is their marvelous shells. However, contrary to the rest of the phylum, most living cephalopods do not have shells (nautiluses being the exception). Squids ...

Deep-sea researchers have discovered a strange glowing sea slug off the coast of California that lives in the water column — unlike most other species of its kind. Hypnotizing footage reveals a ...