While going through my latest bag of shells collected during field work, I found two living Stenotrema (aka slitmouths), probably S. barbatum (aka Bristled Slitmouth).
I've placed them temporarily into a container with some snakewort and walking fern while I decide whether to release them or keep them in a little terrarium. #snails #gastropoda #MolluscMonday #MolluskMonday #terrarium
Daedalochila troostiana, commonly called the Nashville Liptooth, is a relatively rare snail that has a beautifu shell. Found in Madison County, Alabama.
Hmm, looks like a Bladetooth, or maybe any wedgetooth snail, Patera or Xolotrema? I need to brush up on my southern Appalachian land snails.
I love the slight keel along the shell whorl and the prominent denticles.
We have 2 new species of freshwater snails for this #MolluscMonday, named after some of our favourite #LOTR characters.
#LordOfTheRings #Tolkien #MolluskMonday #scicomm #newspecies
Originally posted by Nautilus Magazine / @NautilusMag: http://nitter.platypush.tech/jestkelly/status/1665713970001375232#m
RT by @NautilusMag: Follow-up to the Taningia article in @NautilusMag for #MolluscMonday:
Check the size of these photophores on this subadult #Taningia (found dead at the surface off Hawaii). Dark eyelid-like structure allows the #squid to control the emission of light.
We tend to associated mollusks with the sea, yet they walk among us. Well, slide anyway.
Slugs have vestigial shells and have to use their slime to move, hold in water, and for protection. Best not to lick them.
They are key part of their ecosystem. They recycle plant matter and disperse seeds and spores.
Mastodonians in the PNW Olympic Peninsula area live near the second largest slug in the world: the Banana Slug, which can reach 10 inches long.
Mastodon iSt doof: nix #moosmontag #mossmonday #molluskmonday #molluscmonday ok there shouldbe #mosstodon
