Mollusc World

03/19/2024

Some beautiful Nudibranchs from the Yorke Peninsula (Port Victoria)

03/04/2019

Conservationists want stricter rules on conch fishing, since the Bahamas has some of the most lenient conch regulations in the Caribbean.

05/12/2018

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

05/11/2018

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)

05/10/2018

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

05/09/2018

Interesting video on the so called "banana slugs" (Ariolimax spp.)

04/11/2018

An astonishing Ovilud gastropod Dentiovula dorsuosa camouflaged on a soft coral

04/11/2018

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

08/26/2017

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)

08/26/2017

Clione limacina, also know as sea angle or sea butterfly, is a pelagic specie of "pteropod" gymnosomata ("without a shell") living under the Arctic ice and cold regions of the North Atlantic. These tiny seaslugs have evolved wing-like flapping appendages they use to "gently" swin.