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11 unusual facts about Mollusca


12th edition of Systema Naturae

For example, Linnaeus had included 700 species of mollusc in the 10th edition, and added a further 100 species for the 12th edition.

Arthur Wilson Stelfox

He is best known for his work on Hymenoptera, on vertebrate bones from caves, and on non-marine Mollusca especially the genus Pisidium.

Cave pearl

In this manner, concentric layers build up over time, in much the same way that a biological pearl forms within a mollusc.

Cool tropics paradox

Researchers turned to shallow marine molluscs as it is easy to determine whether their shells had been altered by diagenesis.

F. H. Gravely

His work on Arachnida and Mollusca significantly enhanced the collections of the museum in the two zoological groups.

Hurcott Farm

At this site heavily cemented Pleistocene terrace gravels of the River Cary have yielded an abundant freshwater and terrestrial molluscan fauna.

Indolocarbazole

Three species of tunicate, one mollusk, one flatworm, and one sponge have been discovered in places ranging from Micronesia to New Zealand.

Ispaster

This settlement, formed by a population of men who fished Mollusca, was founded around 3500 BCE, according to the investigations made by Apellaniz in 1973.

Merlimau

This area measuring 550 hectares in Sebatu has been identified as the site for the High Impact Project for the Aquaculture Industry to cultivate and harvest green molluscs.

Nathaniel Colgan

A keen amateur botanist, he later became interested in Mollusca and recorded the marine Mollusca collected during the Clare Island Survey.

William Elford Leach

During his time there he was made assistant keeper of the natural history department and became an expert on crustaceans and molluscs.


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Bracklesham Group

E. Edwards and SV Wood, Monograph of Eocene Mollusca, Palaeontographical Soc.

Fauna of Nicaragua

Many species of molluscs are indigenous to Nicaragua, including at least 79 species of terrestrial snails and slugs.

Karl Alfred von Zittel

His earlier work comprised a monograph on the Cretaceous bivalve mollusca of Gosau (1863–66); and an essay on the Tithonian stage (1870), regarded as equivalent to the Purbeck and Wealden formations.

Melchior Neumayr

His more detailed researches related to the Jurassic and Cretaceous Ammonites and to the Tertiary freshwater mollusca; and in these studies he sought to trace the descent of the species.

Ralph Tate

Tate gave special attention to the Recent and Tertiary mollusca of Australia, and discovered evidence of Permian glaciation of southern Australia at Hallett Cove.

Robert C. Murdoch

Marshall P. & Murdoch R. C. (1921) "Some Tertiary Mollusca, with Descriptions of New Species".

He spent some years subsequent to 1888 in farming near Wanganui, but in 1892 he went to Sydney and studied Mollusca with Mr. Charles Hedley.

Marshall P. & Murdoch R. C. (1919) "Some New Fossil Species of Mollusca".

San Cassiano Formation

The Patch reefs from Valle di Rimbianco present a diverse fauna of fossilized calcitic sponges (Porifera), corals (Cnidaria), bivalves and gastropods (Mollusca), Brachiopoda and Echinodermata.

Tarai Bune

A Tarai Bune or tub-turned boat is a traditional Japanese fishing boat found mainly on Sado Island and used for catching Abalone and other mollusks.

Tetramethylammonium

TMA has been detected in or isolated from a number of marine organisms, mostly amongst the Cnidaria and Mollusca, notably in some species of Neptunea (commonly called whelks) that are eaten by humans.

Thyrocopa nihoa

Included are numerous pellets of Lepidoptera frass, several kinds of plant parts and fragments, parts of dead insects, cast larval skins of insects, the larval cases of two species of Hyposmocoma, and representatives of terrestrial Mollusca of the families Tornatellinidae and Endodontidae.

Tritonia dantarti

"A new tritoniid species (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia) from Bouvet Island".