Studies of Insects and Shells. Drawing by Jacques Le Moyne (c.1533-1588). © The Trustees of the British Museum. #MolluscMonday #Art #invertebrates

European Common Cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) Bone

Here's an interesting photograph for #MolluscMonday A Hoof-shield Limpet. 2nd photo is a zoomed in version of the first one, but I might have managed to photograph a limpet laying eggs. #ShoreWalk #Photography #虫 #EggCells #Nature #Invertebrate

Got a new paper for #MolluscMonday!
With Marijn Roosen and Bram Breure.

This is 'Part 3' of an ongoing revision of the Scolodontidae, a family of (largely) carnivorous land snails from Central and South Americas.
Full article @ https://conchsoc.org/sites/default/files/jconch/45/3/2025-45305.pdf

Today is also #WorldOysterDay - on a #MolluscMonday !
“Denticulated Oyster” (Striostrea denticulata)
illustration by R. P. Nodder in George Shaw’s _The naturalist's miscellany_ Vol. 16, London, 1804-5
Via Biodiversity Heritage Library : https://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/29273633921/

@KateShaw has released a new episode, on wallabies, the literal bigfoot, and their natural opposite, Wiwaxia!

https://strangeanimalspodcast.blubrry.net/2024/07/22/episode-390-the-wallaby-and-wiwaxia/

#hop
#molluscMonday
#bigfoot
#wallaby
#kangaroo
#wiwaxia

if only there was a Bohemian Wiwaxia, a Cedar Wiwaxia, and a Japanese Wiwaxia.

#birds
#wiwaxia
#molluscs
#molluscMonday

#molluscmonday, out yesterday in deepest Buckinghamshire. Spot the giant mollusc .

@WGCG_UK #mollusc #fossils

Cockle (Cardiidae)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cockle_(Cardiidae)_-_Oslo,_Norway_2020-12-23_(06).jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cockle_(Cardiidae)_-_Oslo,_Norway_2020-12-23_(07).jpg

We're getting slimy this #MiteMonday with a bonus #MolluscMonday!

Did you know, there's a species of mite which spends its entire life living on and inside slugs? The 'white slug mite' (Riccardoella oudemansi) feeds on its hosts' blood, and reproduces in the slug's lung cavity.

Isn't nature wonderful...

A pebble full of wee fossil gastropods for #MolluscMonday

A wee selection of 330 million year old marine molluscs #MolluscMonday

Here is an old sketch of mine for #MolluscMonday
#NaturalHistoryArt
#Drawing

And since it's #PokemonDay, here's an oldie but goodie from @jgeekstudies :

Pokémollusca: the mollusk-inspired Pokémon
Read it at: https://jgeekstudies.org/2019/05/19/pokemollusca-the-mollusk-inspired-pokemon/

Mastodon iSt doof: nix #moosmontag #mossmonday #molluskmonday #molluscmonday ok there shouldbe #mosstodon

Just over a week ago it rained in Alice Springs, and I was able to go do a bit of spot lighting. Results were disappointing but I was able to see for the first time this little gastropod out and about.

Beautiful larval shell of the marine bivalve Semelina nuculoides sampled at -20m on the continental shelf offshore FSU's marine lab in the Florida panhandle, imaged today by Luke Calderaro #MolluskMonday #MolluscMonday #ScanningElectronMicroscopy #TinyWorlds

I've got a whole bunch of #shells to sort through this #MolluscMonday - and the next few months
These are old unaccessioned specimens in the collection of the
Arctic Museum of #Norway, including shells that people donated over the past 150 years.
#MolluskMonday #naturalhistory #snails #museum