Biogeographical regions of marine organisms, i.e., their distribution across different habitats, often overlap well with the ...

What are little boys made of? Snips, snails And puppy-dogs’ tails That’s what little boys are made of —Traditional nursery ...

Sea cucumbers spend their lives prowling the ocean floor, scavenging for food and generally minding their own business. We can see snails leading similar lives, slimy but not bothering anyone.

Florida ranks No. 1 for invasive species in the continental United States with more than 500 species of problematic animals, birds, plants, and fish. Thanks to its subtropical climate, wildlife ...

An international team of experts has resolved long-standing questions about the evolutionary history of mollusks, one of the ...

Unlike these three Siphonaria species, the taxonomic validity of the four other species (S. coreensis, S. javanica, S. laciniosa and S. rucuana) previously reported from Korean waters is questionable, ...

Estimates of the number of described species of molluscs in the world vary from nearly 50 000 living species (Tangley 1997, Hickman et al. 2004) through 52 525 marine species (Bouchet 2006), ?70 000 ...

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Anna capixaba, a new species found in depths of 45-60 m off the coast of the state of Espírito Santo, southeastern Brazil, is herein described. The new species is mainly characterized by a teleoconch ...

According to Ocean Census, we currently know of 240,000 marine species and an average of 2,200 species are discovered annually. [Related: See the strange new species discovered near Chile—with ...

ALTHOUGH the recent mollusca of this district have during the last few years received a good deal of attention, especially from the labours of M'Andrew, Barlee, and Merle Norman, still the various ...

A Monograph of the British Nudibranchiate Mollusca, with Figures of the Species. Text by Sir Charles Eliot. Figures by the late Joshua Alder and the late Albany Hancock and others.