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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

snail with elongated and crinkled shell grazes on algae in a clear but swift moving river. two white blotches on its shell are its eggs

#molluscmonday 😍

The ammonites' graveyard: https://shutterbugofstone.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-ammonites-graveyard.html

#MolluscMonday #Ammonite #Mesozoic #Fossils

A highly-polished, beautiful slab of Marston Marble, absolutely full of ammonites. The ammonites are fawn and gold in a rich, chocolate-brown matrix.

#molluscmonday with piping fresh mollusc photos from the weekend, this time we got the Velvet dorid (Jorunna tomentosa) as our featured species, this is one of the larger species found in Sweden, so often quite easy to spot.
Taken 12/7 2025 at Fossens Camping, Gullmarsfjorden, Sweden
Olympus TG-5
#aquaticlife #marinelife #naturephotography #nordicdiving #nudibranch #scuba #underwaterphotography

Photo of a pale-yellow sea slug crawling towards the camera from a slight front-side perspective. The seaslug is crawling on a brownish-grey sediment seafloor.

Photo of a pale-yellow sea slug crawling towards the camera from a straight front perspective. The seaslug is crawling on a brownish-grey sediment seafloor.

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

a small snail wirh an amber colored low-spired and oval shell. it is attached to a plastic plant shelf. a little bit of dried snail mucus is on the shelf from when it glued itself to it.

#MolluscMonday

Another week another #molluscmonday
This week i got to photograph a for me new species, the Crystal Seaslug (Antiopella cristata), and i have to admit it is one of the prettiest nudibranchs i've ever seen
Taken: 6/6 2025
Camera: Olympus TG-5
#marinelife #nudibranchs #nordicdiving #naturephotography #underwaterphotography

Close up photo of a sea slug with its back covered in translucent appendages, each appendage has a vibrant blue tip. The sea slug is crawling on yellowish-brown algae

For this #molluscmonday, i once again got piping fresh molluscs from the weekend, this weekend i found a for me new species, the Crystal sea slug (Antiopella cristata), and not going to lie, it is a very pretty sea slug
Taken: 6/6 2025
Camera: Olympus TG-5
#aquaticlife #marinelife #naturephotography #nudibranch #nordicdiving #scuba #underwaterphotography

Close up photo of a sea slug with its back covered in transluscent appendages, each appendage has a vibrant blue tip. The seaslug is crawling on yellowish-brown algae

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

a deep matte and sparkly black slug makes its way across bare dirt, dodging grass leaves.

#molluscmonday is here, and i got piping fresh nudibranch photos from this weekend's dives, these are Orange brown aeolids (Aeolidiella glauca), the most common of nudibranchs in Sweden, but they are nice nonetheless :D
#marinelife #underwaterphotography #nudibranchs #nordicdiving #naturephotography

Small grey seaslug crawling downwards on a wall.

A brownish seaslug with white antenna-tips crawling on some red and brown algae towards the viwer

A brownish seaslug crawling away from the viewer on a beige seafloor

a greyish seaslug crawling straight towards the viewer

#molluscmonday is here again, and this time i got piping hot nudibranch photos from the weekend dives
These are Orange-brown aeolids (Aeolidiella glauca), the most common of the nudibranchs found in Sweden.
#nudibranch #marinelifemonday #seaslug #marinelife #underwaterphotography #naturephotography #nordicdiving

Small brownish seaslug crawling away from the viewer

A brownish grey seaslug crawling towards the viewer

A brownish seaslug crawling over some red and brown algae

One of the shells (valves) of a window pane oyster. #InverteFest #MolluscMonday #Photography #Nature

a translucent broken shell of an oyster, with a blue tinge, lying on wet sand (sandy beach).

Some ammonites (for example, this Kosmoceras jasoni) crushed shell in shale for #molluscmonday displayed sexual dimorphism, where the female (macroconch) of the species was larger than the male (microconch). It is thought that this was so the female could accommodate a brood of eggs within the shell.
#ammonite from the Callovian ( Middle Jurassic )

Collected the #bivalve Bositra buchii for #molluscmonday only a few millimetres across I find them really fascinating. It was proposed that they were bysally attached to floating organic matter the so-called "pendant" life habit. An abundant species found at many horizons within the Oxford Clay.

Picked up another aesthetic crushed shell in shale Kosmo eras #ammonite from the Callovian ( Middle Jurassic ) for #molluscmonday with bositra buchi #bivalves nestled beside it.

European Common Cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) Bone

#Cuttlefish #Cephalopod #MolluscMonday #ArtWithOpenSource #Darktable #CCBYSA #Cephalopods #Cephalopoda #Mollusc #Molluscs #Mollusk #Mollusks #Mollusca #Bone #Bones #Animal #Animals #AnimalPhotography #SeaLife #MarineLife #Nature #NaturePhotography #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Photography

Here's an interesting photograph for #MolluscMonday A Hoof-shield Limpet. 2nd photo is a zoomed in version of the first one, but I might have managed to photograph a limpet laying eggs. #ShoreWalk #Photography #虫 #EggCells 🦑 🌿🖌️ 🧪 #Nature #Invertebrate

there is a rust color shell in the middle and some purple striation. the soft foot (muscle of the mollusc) can be seen all around, the lower part, seems to have the foot retracted, but another small pink mass showing (this part is zoomed and shared in next photograph)

close up of the extra pink mass, it is tear drop shaped, and has two small pink bumps on it, below and next to it are white dots, which are possibly egg cells.

(not sure if they are limpet eggcells. so if a gastropod/limpet scientist ever sees this post, maybe they can confirm)

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

a slightly opaque plastic kitchen container with a chunk of limestone with snakewort drape on it and a wad of moss with a walking fern. two little pill shaped snails covered in fine hair like spines crawl along the side of the container.

Got a new paper for #MolluscMonday! 🐌
With Marijn Roosen and Bram Breure.

This is 'Part 3' of an ongoing revision of the Scolodontidae, a family of (largely) carnivorous land snails from Central and South Americas.
Full article @ https://conchsoc.org/sites/default/files/jconch/45/3/2025-45305.pdf

#snails #taxonomy

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

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