#molluscs

[hellsitegenetics]

String identified: cg t ca g a c a ac & at a t a ag cat c t acac t a c aacg t a acta ca. tt t tat g c at t a t t a at t

Closest match: Patella pellucida genome assembly, chromosome: 3 Common name: Blue-Rayed Limpet

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reminiscing on when i went cave diving a couple years back & another dude who was in there was playing minecraft music out of his backpack so i just heard c418 slowly approaching me from within an actual cave. shoutout to that guy

[patheticmosasaur1]

today's invertebrate.............creseis acicula

she's the supreme supervisor of the 'library of wet', a massive library that contains every single wet text and archae ever written since 1958!

and lately research at the 'library of wet' has been really slow and almost stopped, as all the wet texts and archae have been fully read and overanalysed, which means that in the coming days creseis acicula and her peers will be promoted to work at the 'library of dry'!!!!

glorpiness rating: and then the said want !!

photograph from the Catalan Opisthobranchs Research Group (GROC) i think

[vexwerewolf]

Being autistic is weird because I think I'd be entirely entirely immune to the maddening effects of witnessing an Elder God but learning that barnacles are arthropods rather than molluscs nearly gave me an existential crisis

[heartnosekid]

the dusky nembrotha (nembrotha kabaryana) | source

[hellsitegenetics]

String identified: g, aa ! c t g ! ta ' ga g t t t tat ' G t at' t

Closest match: Fragum fragum genome assembly, chromosome: 4 Common name: White Strawberry Cockle

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hey guys, pandora here! welcome to my unboxing video! today we're gonna be opening this mystery lootbox that i've been DYING to see what's in it

[zegalba]

The Alabaster Nudibranch is a soft-bodied marine mollusc indigenous to the Eastern Pacific Ocean.

[amagicalmoonlight]

I LOVE MOLLUSKS!!! MOLLUSKS LOVERS RISE UP!!! 🦑🐌🦪🐙

[everydaylouie]

malacologist

[arthistoryanimalia]

#Snails for a slow Sunday:

Jeanne Bieruma Oosting (Dutch, 1898–1994)

The Snails, n.d. (donated by artist in 1983)

Color linocut on Japanese paper, H 612 x W 830 mm

Rijksmuseum RP-P-1983-351

[hellsitegenetics]

I’m a biology teacher, and we just finished our genetics chapter. I mentioned your blog to some of my students, and they asked if they could submit their own questions to your blog to see what animal they got. I’m so sorry if you have a random influx of 15 y/os in your inbox.

String identified: ’ a g tac, a t gtc cat. t g t tt, a t a t c t t t t g t at aa t gt. ’ a a a / .

Closest match: Patella vulgata genome assembly, chromosome: 1 Common name: Common European Limpet

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[feather-bone]

Creature spotlight: molluiscs

IDs in alt text - how many can you guess? :-)

This is a collection of creatures originally drawn for my sticker club. Learn more and see more of my work here!

[caleod]

22-5-24

[patheticmosasaur1]

something I love about the world is that no matter how obscure or uninteresting an animal is, there's always least one person who cherishes it and loves it so much

for example, I have a strong obsession with this random squid called sandalops melancholicus

this is probably the most boring and generic cranchiid squid, but it is so beautiful to me in a way that I can never describe

every other cranchiid squid has something cool going for it; cranchia scabra has weird denticles kinda like a shark, leachia has a ring of lights around its eyes unlike any other squid, the colossal squid is the colossal squid etc.

but sandalops? sandalops doesn't have anything cool going for it. it either loses most of its suckers if it's a male or loses its tentacles if it's a female

but I still love it so much. I don't fully know why, but it is just so amazing and relatable

don't worry sandalops, you're better than all of them

[gawki]

Wield a tiny trident!

[heartnosekid]

the glass octopus (vitreledonella richardi) | source

[geosesarma]

The Animal Ever. You Love The Animal

Please Look At The Most Animal. It Is Looking At You