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Nudibranchs come in striking colors & forms, as seen through Tokyo-based artist Kumataro Ito's documenting specimens collected on the Philippine Expedition, captured in Paul Bartsch's field book available via ➡️ https://t.co/CPGGoY5ur7

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2019-05-14

An interesting beach scene for - a bunch of snails eating a dead chiton! 😅

It's a mollusc-eat-mollusc world out there. 🐚🌊

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2019-05-13

Meet Mei, the Japanese Flying Squid that majored in Aerospace Engineering and can propel herself as much as 30m through the air by forcing water through her siphon.

Todarodes pacificus

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2019-04-16

Sliding into with another bobtail squid who loves 90's pizza/paint parties.

For real though, octopus skin is full of stretchy sacs of color (chromatophores), stacks of reflective plates (iridophores), and light-scattering patches (leucophores). It's insane!

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2019-04-09

"Testacea utriusque siciliae eorumque historia et anatome" (1791-1827) on the mollusks of Sicily is the most important Italian malacological work of the latter 1700s. Explore this in via ➡️ https://t.co/A2Q9ghrkCp 🐚🐚🐚

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2019-04-08

A funky-looking Chambered Nautilus is making an appearance for this week's

What this guy lacks in memory, he more than makes up for with 90 tentacles and a shell that inspires many mathematical debates.

Nautilus pompilius

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2019-02-26

English naturalist William Turton's passion was conchology. He published several illustrated books, including "A conchological dictionary of the British Islands" (1819), recently added to by ➡️ https://t.co/beRgH41sRH

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2019-02-26

We're shell-ebrating with beautiful shell "Thesaurus conchyliorum, or, Monographs of genera of shells" (1847-87) is considered one of the rarest of all conchology books. It's freely available in via ➡️ https://t.co/HuHUVymzYj 🐚🐚🐚

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2018-12-04

Beautiful from "D'Amboinsche Rariteitkamer" for This 1705 work by Rumpf details the marine life of Amboina (Ambon) in what is now eastern Indonesia & features by Maria Sybilla Merian. In via : https://t.co/iB5ie7ZIIv

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2018-06-26

The Muusoctopus levis is found in subantarctic waters in the Southern Ocean. by Rübsaamen from "The Cephalopoda" (1975), an English translation of Carl Chun's "Die Cephalopoden" (1910-15). In via : https://t.co/dJgZlDAi0T

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2018-04-17

Explore for from A Conchological Manual (1839) by George Brettingham Sowerby. Contributed to by : https://t.co/wOoHWKR6JW --

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2018-03-13

American malacologist George W. Tryon, Jr. was a co-founder of the American Journal of Conchology. His 1860s monograph documents terrestrial from the U.S. https://t.co/rcmfu466vJ Digitized

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2017-12-05

Jean Baptiste Vérany described & illustrated Mediterranean in his 1851 monograph https://t.co/GHqdoyozPL

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2017-09-25