A freshwater snail with eggs on its shell. It may be E. pybasii aka the Spring Elimia, which are endemic to the southeast US in the Tennessee River drainage.

#MolluscMonday #MolluskMonday #IknowThatItIsTuesday

Found an amber snail estivating at the farmers market. It would probably have ended up crushed where it was, so I gently detached it and chucked it into thick brush by the river.

Amber snails are fairly common land snails but this is the first living one I've ever seen.

#Snails #MolluskMonday #MolluscMonday #Malacology

Today I made my 2,000th observation on iNaturalist. While working at the allotment garden, this black-velvet leatherleaf slug popped out of a clump of weeds. They are invasive in Alabama and are slowly working their way north.

It was the first one I've seen in person, and I was bith excited and a bit dissapointed that they're in my area now. #Gardening #MolluskMonday #MolluscMonday #Nature

While going through my latest bag of shells collected during field work, I found two living Stenotrema (aka slitmouths), probably S. barbatum (aka Bristled Slitmouth).

I've placed them temporarily into a container with some snakewort and walking fern while I decide whether to release them or keep them in a little terrarium. #snails #gastropoda #MolluscMonday #MolluskMonday #terrarium

Daedalochila troostiana, commonly called the Nashville Liptooth, is a relatively rare snail that has a beautifu shell. Found in Madison County, Alabama.

#snails #MolluscMonday #molluskmonday #Nature #naturephotography

Hmm, looks like a Bladetooth, or maybe any wedgetooth snail, Patera or Xolotrema? I need to brush up on my southern Appalachian land snails.

I love the slight keel along the shell whorl and the prominent denticles.

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Originally posted by Nautilus Magazine / @NautilusMag: http://nitter.platypush.tech/jestkelly/status/1665713970001375232#m

RT by @NautilusMag: Follow-up to the Taningia article in @NautilusMag for #MolluscMonday:

Check the size of these photophores on this subadult #Taningia (found dead at the surface off Hawaii). Dark eyelid-like structure allows the #squid to control the emission of light.

#MolluskMonday #deepsea

#MolluskMonday

We tend to associated mollusks with the sea, yet they walk among us. Well, slide anyway.

Slugs have vestigial shells and have to use their slime to move, hold in water, and for protection. Best not to lick them.

They are key part of their ecosystem. They recycle plant matter and disperse seeds and spores.

Mastodonians in the PNW Olympic Peninsula area live near the second largest slug in the world: the Banana Slug, which can reach 10 inches long.

#nature # science #ecology

Sure, sure, here's a cool mollusk for #MolluskMonday, but look 👀at all the amazing organisms growing on it! Tunicates, barnacles, worm(?) tubes? Oh my!

Formerly in the Duke Marine Lab Collection as DUML 4420, collected 12 Aug. 1981 by the crew of the R/V Dan Moore off North Carolina via trawl.

#macrophotography #museum #museumspecimen #molluscmonday