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unusual facts about molluscs



Bradyseism

In particular, the town of Pozzuoli features the Roman Macellum of Pozzuoli in which three marble columns show bands of boreholes or Gastrochaenolites left by marine Lithophaga molluscs.

Cool tropics paradox

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

Fauna of Nicaragua

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

Giuseppe Saverio Poli

The specimens were from locations all over the world, and included, especially, Lepidoptera, Cnidaria and Molluscs.

Green blood

Hemocyanin, a copper-based system of transporting oxygen in blood found in many molluscs and arthropods

Imposex

The imposex stages of female dog whelks and other molluscs (including Nucella lima) are used in the United Kingdom and worldwide to monitor levels of tributyltin.

Key Biodiversity Areas

Examples include Important Plant Areas (IPAs), Ecologically and Biologically Significant Areas (EBSAs) in the High Seas, Alliance for Zero Extinction (AZE) sites, Prime Butterfly Areas, Important Mammal Areas and Important Sites for Freshwater Biodiversity, with prototype criteria developed for freshwater molluscs and fish and for marine systems.

Las Hoyas

Las Hoyas was an inland lacustrine environment which presents an important aquatic and terrestrial flora (with many specimens of Charophytes, Montsechia, Weischelia or Frenelopsis) and diverse fauna, with specimens of at least five or six Phyla: Arthropods, Molluscs, Chordata and many vermiform soft bodied animals which might be Nemertines or Annelids.

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.

Pozzuoli

The Macellum includes three majestic columns in cipolin marble, which show erosion from marine Lithophaga molluscs when, at an earlier time, the ground level was much lower due to Bradyseism, and sea-water could flow in.

Pratul

Pratulum, a genus of marine bivalve molluscs in the family Cardiidae

Reef

However, other organism groups, such as calcifying algae, especially members of the red algae Rhodophyta, and molluscs (especially the rudist bivalves during the Cretaceous Period) have created massive structures at various times.

Slovak Paradise National Park

The National Park contains about 4,000 species of invertebrates, which include more than 2,100 species of butterflies, 400 species of bugs and 150 species of molluscs.

Thalassia testudinum

These include bivalves and other molluscs, polychaete worms, amphipods and juvenile fish which hide among the leaf blades, sea urchins, crabs and caridean shrimps.

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.

William Leigh Williamson Eyre

He was a member of the Hampshire Field Club and took an interest in local plants, especially species of the genus Rubus, and in land and freshwater molluscs.


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