thefathippyAustralia's largest native slug. Up to 15cm! Not this one, though, this was more like 10-12cm. You'll never guess what we whacky Australians call them... (see alt text and/or links in next toot)
Angus DavisonMolluscaGenes: A Transcriptomic Database for the Mollusca - has already proved a useful resource for me: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.05.723003v1 #mollusc #transcriptome #Genomics
Diego PastorArion rufus (fam. Arionidae).
[ES] Esto sí que necesita advertencia de contenido, y no las arañas. A pesar del asquete que me dan, ese reborde rojo me pareció tan bonito que me paré a fotografiarla (una sola toma y a correr, y así salió, claro).
Fotografiada el 03/05/2026 en la provincia de Bizkaia.
[EN] This really needs a content warning, not the spiders. Despite I find it a little disgusting, I stopped to take a ―single― photo because I liked its red border.
Photographed on 2026/05/03 in the province of Bizkaia (Spain).
Equipo/Equipment: Canon EOS 400D + Tamron SP 90 mm f/2.8 Di MACRO 1:1
ISO 1600, s 1/160, f/3,5. A pulso/Handheld.
#mollusca #gastropoda #arionidae #arion
#babosa #slug #molusco #mollusc #gastropod #gasterópodo
[ES] Esto sí que necesita advertencia de contenido, y no las arañas. A pesar del asquete que me dan, ese reborde rojo me pareció tan bonito que me paré a fotografiarla (una sola toma y a correr, y así salió, claro).
Fotografiada el 03/05/2026 en la provincia de Bizkaia.
[EN] This really needs a content warning, not the spiders. Despite I find it a little disgusting, I stopped to take a ―single― photo because I liked its red border.
Photographed on 2026/05/03 in the province of Bizkaia (Spain).
Equipo/Equipment: Canon EOS 400D + Tamron SP 90 mm f/2.8 Di MACRO 1:1
ISO 1600, s 1/160, f/3,5. A pulso/Handheld.
#mollusca #gastropoda #arionidae #arion
#babosa #slug #molusco #mollusc #gastropod #gasterópodo
HibipixPhoto by Autumn Martin
Pink Cheeks. Third Place, Up & Coming. "This was my first time taking a camera underwater, and was nervous but excited. My goal was to get a tiny nudibranch in focus, and with the support of my husband, Adam Martin, and our amazing guides, I quickly fell in love with macro photography."
Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2025/02/winners-2025-underwater-photographer-year-contest/681741/
#photography #fotografie #underwater #underwaterphotography #animal #mollusc #nudibranch #nudibranchia #macro #macrophoto
Pink Cheeks. Third Place, Up & Coming. "This was my first time taking a camera underwater, and was nervous but excited. My goal was to get a tiny nudibranch in focus, and with the support of my husband, Adam Martin, and our amazing guides, I quickly fell in love with macro photography."
Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2025/02/winners-2025-underwater-photographer-year-contest/681741/
#photography #fotografie #underwater #underwaterphotography #animal #mollusc #nudibranch #nudibranchia #macro #macrophoto
katch wreck`Unique phenomena are important in history but are difficult to study because they resist categorization and are therefore unpredictable. To examine the timing and circumstances of unique evolutionary events, we identified traits that evolved only once in the highly diverse phylum Mollusca as well as unique first occurrences of traits that evolved repeatedly since.`
Whiskers 🇦🇺In #SouthAustralia #Coorong there are beaches along the brackish lake almost entirely made up of tiny (5mm long) #mollusc shells. They are not a result of any recent toxicity but have accumulated over a long time
Quadrapop 🎨 🐈🐓🌱🇦🇺Tiny #shells collected from the beaches of Rottnest Island decades ago last century, held within my grandfather’s gilded #brass cigarette case. #nature #mollusc #vintage #collection #treasures A world in the palm of your hand.
Ele Willoughby, PhDA mollusc themed repeat pattern for your nature loving Valentine featuring three of my #linocut heart cockles (Corculum cardissa). Perfect for your favourite malachologist, beach comber or shell collector.
Corculum cardissa, the heart cockle, is a species of marine bivalve mollusc in the family Cardiidae found in the Indo-Pacific. If viewed from the side, it looks like a heart. 🧵
Find it on Spoonflower:
https://www.spoonflower.com/en/fabric/20172282-cockles-heart-block-printed-heart-cockles-on-pink-by-minouette
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Ko-fi commission for Kimo Force! (gift for their friend!)
#anthro #furry #FurryArt #snail #mollusc #star #commission #art #DigitalArt
llewellyeveryone has heard of the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus, a joke made up for a poorly-thought out survey of what 1990s people believed on the internet, but somehow nobody has heard of the Mangrove Jingle Shell Clam, a real and amazing animal I learned about from @KateShaw
hopefully Dr. Dan Killam @dantheclamman can provide us all with more information on this animal.
https://strangeanimalspodcast.blubrry.net/2023/07/24/episode-338-updates-6-and-an-arboreal-clam/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigmonia