Mollusc World

Some beautiful Nudibranchs from the Yorke Peninsula (Port Victoria)

Conchs may be extinct in the Bahamas in as soon as 10 years, and it could be a 'huge blow' to the islands Conservationists want stricter rules on conch fishing, since the Bahamas has some of the most lenient conch regulations in the Caribbean.

Another deep sea beauty. An abyssal cephalopod from the NOAA archives.

Did you know about the TRANSPARENT sea slung?
Melibe colemani (Gosliner & Pola, 2012) aka the "ghost nudibrach". Its anatomy is the same of any other niduibranch, but it is completely (or almost) transparent. If you look closely you can distinguish cerata end rhinophora, as well as the clearly complex digestive apparatus (the white tangle of withish tubes). The species is actually present in abundance in the coral reefs of Indonesia. However, science has ignored it for such a long time mainly because it is difficult to spot!


(photos by Brook Pederson)

Cypraea lynx on eggs. From a fringing reef north of Cairns. Encountered on a low tide in May.

An astonishing Ovilud gastropod Dentiovula dorsuosa camouflaged on a soft coral

A wonderful shot of a landsnail (photo by Vyacheslav Mishchenko)

Inside an egg.

An astonishing photo of octopus embryo during its early stage of development and still inside the egg.

"...bout forty days after mating, the female giant Pacific octopus attaches strings of small fertilised eggs (10,000 to 70,000 in total) to rocks in a crevice or under an overhang. Here she guards and cares for them for about five months (160 days) until they hatch..." (Crowfoot 2017)


(Photo by Mawi Rahim)

Astonishing photo of octopus embryo

(Photo by Mawi Rahim)