Snails, mussels, squids -- as different as they may look, they do have something in common: they all belong to the phylum Mollusca, also called mollusks. Researchers have now carried out research into ...

An international team of experts has resolved long-standing questions about the evolutionary history of mollusks, one of the most diverse zoological groups on the planet. The study, published in ...

Winston F. Ponder (Ph.D, D.Sc, FRZSNSW) was educated in New Zealand, and employed as a curator at the Australian Museum in 1968, where he was a Principal Research Scientist in 1980 to his retirement ...

From octopuses to snails, the complicated molluscan family tree has now been mapped in unprecedented detail, researchers report. This includes sequences for 13 new complete genomes from across the ...

Seasonal dynamics of the number and some bioenergetic indices of the population of Falsimargarita iris (Smith) (Gastropoda, Trochidae) from the Davis Sea (East Antarctic) / E.N. Egorova -- Malacofauna ...

As far as invertebrates go, you don’t get much smarter than the members of the mollusk phylum, which includes octopuses, cuttlefish, and squid. But mollusks apparently didn’t think through their ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Two new species of dicyemids are described from 2 species of deep benthic cephalopods, Graneledone antarctica and G. macrotyla, collected in ...

Mollusks are arguably the most endangered major group of animals in the world. But few people realize the extent of their imperilment. The idea that mollusks are in severe trouble has reached a ...

Snails have shells the moment they're born, but it's kind of hard to tell. In fact, it's hard to even see a baby snail. Some are nearly microscopic, such as Angustopila psammion, whose adult-sized ...