mollusc

• “In each case the mollusc is a loose fit in its burrow, having ample room for rotation, but the aperture of the latter is what is known as a cassinian oval, and generally projects slightly above the surface of the coral.”

  My Tropic Isle

• “The embryo of a Vertebrate might at a certain stage of development, be called a mollusc, if for instance, it had the heart of a mollusc.”

  Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

• “Having written a piece about the 'mollusc' otherwise known as the Wales Millennium Centre I thought that it was only fair to allow my non-Cardiff based readers to see what their taxpayers money has been spent on.”

  Golden Domes

• “In the waters of Florida is a distinct curiosity in the form of an altogether different mollusc which is commonly known as the “bleeding-tooth shell,” the gory stains about the base of the tooth being highly significant.”

  Tropic Days

• “In the waters of Florida is a distinct curiosity in the form of an altogether different mollusc which is commonly known as the”

  Tropic Days

• “Though they might superficially look like just another kind of mollusc, brachiopods belonged to an entirely different phylum, one that flourished during the past but has been reduced to just a handful of species today.”

  ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science

• “The New Zealand mud snail (Potamopyrgus antipodarum) is a lake-dwelling mollusc whose females can be either sexually reproducing (requiring male 'input' for successful embryo production), or asexually reproducing (clonally reproducing without sexual activity).”

  The Huffington Post: Carin Bondar: No Eggs? No Problem!

• “A factor must surely be that by far the majority of mollusc species are aquatic (I am assuming again) and harder to study.”

  Where are all the malacologists?

• “Those were the formative years of malacology when even the broadest classifications of most of the mollusc species were debatable.”

  Archive 2009-01-01

• “I mean, if someone devotes their life to studying an obscure mollusc rather than campaigning for better housing, presumably it's because they feel the world is mostly OK as it is.”

  The Guardian: Liberal bias: science writing's elephant in the room?

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