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**Guerric Haché** @GuerricHache@pixelfed.social · Apr 20

Guerric Haché @GuerricHache@pixelfed.social

Ariolimax columbianus, the Pacific banana slug, is the second largest land slug in the world, and a common sight in our temperate rainforests.

#ariolimax #slug #bananaslug #mollusc #invertebrates #inaturalist #macro #macrophotography #wildlife #vancouver #canada #britishcolumbia

A pale yellow slug slides through some round-leaved mosses. Its face is tucked beneath some of the moss plants, with one of its eyestalks turned towards the camera.

#britishcolumbia

**The Smartphone Photographer** @AverageS@pixelfed.social · Apr 14

**Ryan Hodnett** @ryanhodnett@mastodon.world · Mar 25

Mar 25

Ryan Hodnett @ryanhodnett@mastodon.world

A Violet Snail (Janthina sp.) preying on a By-the-wind Sailor (Velella velella)

A photo of a small pale purple snail on top of a by-the-wind-sailor on sand.

#VioletSnail #Janthina #ByTheWindSailor

**Guerric Haché** @GuerricHache@pixelfed.social · Mar 23

Mar 23

Guerric Haché @GuerricHache@pixelfed.social

A tiny little snail living under a log! I think it's in the family Oxychilidae, but I'm not sure.

#snail #mollusc #oxychilidae #inaturalist #invertebrates #macro #macrophotography #animal #wildlife #wildlifephotography #canada #britishcolumbia #vancouver #coquitlam

A close-up of a tiny snail travelling along wood. The shell is circular and dark bronze/amber, and the body is fully emerged as the snail moves in a straight line. Its body is dark, almost black, and its eyestalks are extremely long, almost half as long as the entire body.

#coquitlam

**Dave Muth** @outer@mas.to · Mar 22

Mar 22

Dave Muth @outer@mas.to

Here's a very cool #Science article! Octopuses change genes in strange ways.

It's explained by #Scientist and #ScienceWriter Meg Mindlin at the #Octopus web site
OctoNation https://octonation.com/octopus-can-edit-their-rna-heres-how/

GIF

#Genetics #DNA #RNA

**gerg** @gregsmith@pixelfed.social · Mar 21

Mar 21

gerg @gregsmith@pixelfed.social

At first I thought this was some sort of fossil - it felt like part of the rock. Turns out it's a chiton, a marine mollusc. This one is a giant chiton, Plaxiphora albida.

Chitons use biomineralisation to coat their teeth in iron (technically magnetite) so they can chew away on coral and algae growing on rocks.

#macro #nature #chiton #mollusc #auswildlife #molluscsofaustralia #marinelife

A giant chiton, Plaxiphora albida, on a rock.

#marinelife

**Guerric Haché** @GuerricHache@pixelfed.social · Mar 18

Mar 18

Guerric Haché @GuerricHache@pixelfed.social

A cute predatory snail I found, Haplotrema vancouverense (the robust lancetooth snail). It's strange to think of land snails as predators, but a lot of them are! They eat other snails and slugs, among other things.

#snail #gastropod #mollusc #haplotrema #invertebrates #inaturalist #wildlife #macro #macrophotography #wildlifephotography #canada #britishcolumbia #vancouver #coquitlam

A close-up shot of a snail with a pale yellowish-tan shell, covered in tiny, faint striations perpendicular to the curl of the shell. The snail's head and body are out; it is pale, vaguely bluish-white, and its eyestalks are pointing towards the bottom of the image. It is being held in a human hand.

#coquitlam

**Guerric Haché** @GuerricHache@pixelfed.social · Mar 10

Mar 10

Guerric Haché @GuerricHache@pixelfed.social

A small Arion slug doing acrobatics atop moss spore capsules. I don't often see slugs reaching such dizzying heights!

#slug #mollusc #gastropod #arion #moss #macro #macrophotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #bowenisland #vancouver #britishcolumbia #canada

A tiny slug, with a pale cream-coloured underside and a grey-and-cream pattern along its tail and mantle, hands suspended across two tiny moss spore capsules that stand on the tips of very thin red-to-green stalks.

#canada

**Guerric Haché** @GuerricHache@pixelfed.social · Mar 8

Mar 8

Guerric Haché @GuerricHache@pixelfed.social

Vespericola columbiana, the northwest hesperian, is a cute little "hairy" snail that we have here in BC.

#snail #vespericola #hesperian #mollusc #macro #macrophotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #inaturalist #bowenisland #vancouver #britishcolumbia #canada

A very close-up photo of a tiny snail with a light brown shell covered in many tiny spiky hair-like protrusions, and a pale brown body. Its two eye stalks are peeking out from under the shell at the camera.

#canada

**Guerric Haché** @GuerricHache@pixelfed.social · Mar 7

Mar 7

Guerric Haché @GuerricHache@pixelfed.social

The Pacific Banana Slug, Ariolimax columbianus, is our largest native slug, and a relatively common sight in the forests of southwestern BC.

#slug #bananaslug #ariolimax #mollusc #nature #macro #macrophotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #inaturalist #bowenisland #vancouver #britishcolumbia #canada

A large, brownish-yellow slug is curled into a circle, with its face right next to the tip of its tail and aimed towards the camera. Its mouth is flexing as it appears to chew away at something stuck to its tail.

#canada

**Ryan Hodnett** @ryanhodnett@mastodon.world · Mar 1

Mar 1

Ryan Hodnett @ryanhodnett@mastodon.world

Ctena decussata

A photo of a small white and green Ctena shell on a stone surface.

#CtenaDecussata #ArtWithOpenSource #CCBYSA

**Ryan Hodnett** @ryanhodnett@mastodon.world · Mar 1

Mar 1

Ryan Hodnett @ryanhodnett@mastodon.world

Noah's Ark Shell (Arca noae)

A photo of a noah's ark shell on a stone surface.

A photo of the underside of a noah's ark shell on a stone surface.

#NoahsArkShell #ArcaNoae #CCBYSA

**Ryan Hodnett** @ryanhodnett@mastodon.world · Feb 24 *

Feb 24 *

Ryan Hodnett @ryanhodnett@mastodon.world

European Common Cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) Bone

#Cuttlefish #Cephalopod #MolluscMonday

**EURACTIV Agrifood** @euractiv_agri@eupolicy.social · Feb 17

Feb 17

EURACTIV Agrifood @euractiv_agri@eupolicy.social

Trump targets EU shellfish as part of tariff plan https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/trump-targets-eu-shellfish-as-part-of-tariff-plan/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=dlvr.it #clam #EU #fisheries #mollusc #oyster

**llewelly** @llewelly@sauropods.win · Feb 17

Feb 17

llewelly @llewelly@sauropods.win

ever wonder why confectioners and candy makers keep making sweets that look just like deadly poisonous animals? Well, here's another episode from @KateShaw , about another deadly toxic animal that looks a delicious adorable bunny marshmallow:

https://strangeanimalspodcast.blubrry.net/2025/02/17/episode-420-the-sea-bunny/

#nudibranch
#mollusc
#gastropod
#snail
#bunny
#seaBunny
#notABunny

strangeanimalspodcast.blubrry.netEpisode 420: The Sea Bunny | Strange Animals Podcast

**JDS** @JDS@pixelfed.social · Jan 27

Jan 27

JDS @JDS@pixelfed.social

Spanish Shawl showing off

#nudibranch #gastropod #mollusc #underwater #ocean #SpanishShawl #California

a colorful small sea slug clinging to the reef in ocean swell as it's brightly colored tendrils wave around

#california

**Murray GM - Paperposts** @Paperposts@zirk.us · Dec 7, 2024

Dec 7, 2024

Murray GM - Paperposts @Paperposts@zirk.us

munching #mollusc

**Lukas VFN** @animalculum@scholar.social · Nov 30, 2024

Nov 30, 2024

Lukas VFN @animalculum@scholar.social

What a #mollusc shell and fiber optic cables have in common https://www.npr.org/2024/11/23/nx-s1-5199634/heart-shaped-mollusc-shell-resembles-fiber-optic-cables

Heart cockle shells transmit sunlight to photosymbiotic algae using bundled fiber optic cables and condensing lenses: Dakota McCoy et al. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-53110-x

"the structure of the #HeartCockle's shell operates as its own kind of fiber #OpticCables to channel light to the #algae living inside it"

photos of various bivalve sea shells and a drawing showing them placed on the sea floor

#protists #symbiosis #mollusks

**Angus Davison** @snailman@ecoevo.social · Nov 20, 2024

Nov 20, 2024

Angus Davison @snailman@ecoevo.social

Lab trip to Molluscan forum @ Natural History Museum, London. BBSRC student Alec Lewis presenting our new work on Cuban Polymita.
#BBSRC #Polymita #NHM #Malacsoc #Mollusc #Snail

Alec showing first slide of presentation "The mitochondrial genome and phylogenetic placement of the world's most beautiful snail Polymita picta"

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**Heliograph** @Heliograph@mastodon.au · Nov 9, 2024

Nov 9, 2024

Heliograph @Heliograph@mastodon.au

@alcootatooter no no no that was superhelpful I really had no idea those #oceans creatures exist!! When I sat down after visiting the beach looking at those pretty tiny pieces, they were all around the washed up lobsters, and googling the images did not return anything, so I made an assumption and am very happy to learn what they actually are!! Now I will look out for the whole #mollusc :D they washed up on the beach with a flood of bluebottles, and seeing these #marine #molluscs are from QLD I guess the warmer water might have brought them along...

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