The gastropod shell is an animal shell which is part of the body of a gastropod or snail. It is an external skeleton or exoskeleton, which serves not only for muscle attachment, but also for ...

MOSCOW, Feb. 5 (UPI) --Researchers in Russia have discovered a new species of luminous polyps in the Red Sea. The fluorescent sea creatures form small colonies on the shells of Nassarius margaritifer, ...

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 ...

Gastropod shell morphologies are famously diverse but generally share a common geometry, the logarithmic coil. Variations on this morphology have been modeled mathematically and computationally but ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Pleurocerid snail diversity has historically been defined by morphological shell features, and these features are believed to be phenotypic ...

"This is the first supplement to the Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-bearing Mollusca of Japan ... published in 1999"--P. 4. siris_sil_675669 ...