X-Nico

unusual facts about Mollusc shell


St. Anne Shell Chapel

As the chapel was being built, Sister Mary Joseph Le Fer de la Motte had the idea to line the walls with iridescent river shells from the nearby Wabash River.


Eocypraeidae

has raised the tribe Eocypraeini to the status of the family Eocypraeidae, based on morphological research of the radulae, shell and animal morphology and molecular phylogeny research of the 16S ribosomal RNA gene.


see also

Whorl

Body whorl, in a mollusc shell the most recently formed whorl of a spiral shell, terminating in the aperture