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For example, Linnaeus had included 700 species of mollusc in the 10th edition, and added a further 100 species for the 12th edition.
Aliptina acheronae is a species of very small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cerithiopsidae, and the only species in the genus Aliptina.
Amphibola crenata (titiko in the Māori language or mud-flat snail in English) is a species of air breathing snail with an operculum, a pulmonate gastropod mollusc which lives in a habitat that is intermediate between the land and the sea, not entirely terrestrial and not entirely marine.
The name was fixed by an ICZN opinion to differentiate it from the Ancylini tribe of fresh-water molluscs.
The mantle, a thin membrane surrounding the body, secretes the shell valves, ligament and hinge teeth.
In this manner, concentric layers build up over time, in much the same way that a biological pearl forms within a mollusc.
Cerithiopsidae are a family of very small and minute sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs or micromollusks in the informal group Ptenoglossa.
Cerithiopsidella blacki is a species of very small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cerithiopsidae.
Cerithiopsilla gaussiana is a species of very small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cerithiopsidae.
Cerithiopsis arga is a species of very small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cerithiopsidae.
Like other hermit crabs, Clibanarius vittatus lives inside the empty shell of a gastropod mollusc.
cADPR and ADPR are synthesized from NAD+ by the bifunctional ectoenzymes of the CD38 family (also includes the GPI-anchored CD157 and the specific, monofunctional ADP ribosyl cyclase of the mollusc Aplysia).
Donax variabilis, a mollusc species found on the east coast of the United States from Virginia to the Caribbean
As a hermit crab, it lives inside the empty shell of a gastropod mollusc and its soft abdomen and most of its limbs are normally hidden with just the dacryls, or claws, projecting.
In particular, he was intrigued by the species Agnewia tritoniformis a rare, delicate pink gastropod mollusc from the muricid family.
Euomphalidae is an extinct family of Paleozoic marine molluscs which may be gastropods with anisostrophically coiled shells (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
There are remains from mounds of mountain shellfish (Cyclophorus), spring shellfish (Melania), some fresh water mollusc and some rudimentary labour tools.
a geologist with the United States Geological Survey for 32 years, was known worldwide for her work in stratigraphy and mollusc paleontology.
Another marine mollusc, the opisthobranch Aplysia possesses relatively small number of large nerve cells that are easily identified and mapped from individual to individual.
Latham's Snipe is an omnivorous species that feeds on seeds and other plant material (mainly from species in families such as Cyperaceae, Poaceae, Juncaceae, Polygonaceae, Ranunculaceae and Fabaceae), and on invertebrates including insects (mainly flies and beetles), earthworms, spiders and occasionally molluscs, isopods and centipedes.
The mollusc Tochuina tetraquetra (formerly Tritonia diomedea or Tritonia gigantea) has been studied for clues as to the neural mechanism behind magnetoreception in a species.
The cloth has been claimed to be made of a rare fiber called byssus, which is a natural fiber coming from a bivalve mollusc Pinna nobilis, woven into sea silk, and used by ancient people mainly around the Mediterranean coasts .
Marginellidae, or the margin shells, are a taxonomic family of small, often colorful, sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Neogastropoda.
Marginellinae is a taxonomic subfamily within the larger family of Marginellidae, a group of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Muricoidea.
Mitridae, known as mitre shells, are a taxonomic family of sea snails, widely distributed marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Neogastropoda.
Sculpture is coarser, like otagoensis, shape a cross between monilifera and skinneri Finlay, not so high as the former, not so elongate and parallel-sided as the latter, which is from the Chatham Islands (Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 59, p. 236, Fig. 59, 1928).
Other fossil cetaceans have also been found in the area, as well as a fish, a diverse invertebrate fauna that includes molluscs, gastropods, marine diatoms, and Antarctica’s first Pliocene decapod crustacean.
Its diet includes some fruit and it cracks open the shells of molluscs such as the giant panda snail (Hedleyella falconeri) on an anvil, a stone or other hard surface habitually used for this purpose.
These animals are marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Olivoidea, within the clade Neogastropoda according to the taxonomy of Bouchet and Rocroi.
Pea crabs are tiny soft-bodied crabs that live commensally in the mantles of certain bivalve molluscs (and the occasional large gastropod mollusc species in genera such as Strombus and Haliotis).
The bivalved mollusc Macoma is their preferred prey on European coasts, swallowing them whole and breaking them up in their gizzard.
Ribeiria is a genus of rostroconch mollusc with a pegma, once interpreted as an intermediate between helcionellids (such as Anabarella and Latouchella) and primitive scaphopods (such as Pinnocaris).
Soletellina nitida, the shining sunset shell, a bivalve mollusc species
Syringonautilus (K438) which has been found in the Alps, on Spitsbergen, in India and Japan has a rapidly expanding evolute shell with a perforate umbilicus and suboval whorl section.
Tellina tenuis, the thin tellin, a marine bivalve mollusc species found off the coasts of north west Europe and in the Mediterranean Sea
Body whorl, in a mollusc shell the most recently formed whorl of a spiral shell, terminating in the aperture
Yochelcionella gracilis, a mollusc species from the lower Cambrian of North America in the genus Yochelcionella