Liew TS, Nurinsiyah AS, Marzuki ME, Fletcher WK, @jkfni.bsky.social, Bian NA, Chen Y, Khalik MZ, Vermeulen JJ, @schilthuizen.bsky.social 2026. Biogeographical patterns of the genus Plectostoma ( #Mollusca, #Gastropoda) in Sundaland’s limestone ecosystems. Front Biogeogr 🔓 doi.org/10.21425/fob... 🧪🌏🐌
Biogeographical patterns of the genus Plectostoma H. Adams, 1865 (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in Sundaland’s limestone ecosystems biogeography.pensoft.net/articles.php...
If you are interested in land snails [and if not, why not?], here's a paper well worth a read, on a highly diverse region
...and eventually the most long awaited starter pack: the one to connect all those interested in molluscs! Please message me if you prefer to opt out or if you wish to suggest new members (just briefly add the reason) go.bsky.app/Eh4qpKr
Thanks! It's custom made by my friend! ☺️
2025 was a year of progress & discoveries for akaleha' tree snail conservation here in the CNMI 🐌 Akaleha' are tree snails in Family Partulidae native to the Mariana Islands🇲🇵🇬🇺
To count down the new year,
Here's our Top 10 Akaleha' Conservation Moments of 2025
#InverteFest #JoyOfMolluscs
Short documentary of our land snail conservation project. Many thanks to Parks Australia and everyone involved in making this possible! youtu.be/ewuNBPVC_kM?...
Presumed extinct, Campbell’s keeled glass-snail was rediscovered on Norfolk Island in 2020. Now, breeding efforts by Taronga Zoo and partners have grown the population and released 340 tagged snails into the wild — Australia’s first large-scale snail reintroduction, & newborns are already appearing.
Today’s #AtoZ is Enteroxenos, an odd genus in an odd family (Eulimidae).
We don’t think of snails as parasites, but parasitism has evolved multiple times. There are LOTS of parasitic snails – both ecto (outside) and endo (inside).
So maybe eulimids aren’t that odd after all.
Pics coming. (1/7)
Progress made on my big oil painting of nautiluses. 🧡
#nautilus #allonautilus #marinelife #deepseacreatures #mollusks #cephalopods #oilpainting #wildlifeart #animalart 🐡 🦑
My second nautilus is much closer to done after today’s session at the easel. Next weekend, the allonautilus!
#nautilus #allonautilus #marinelife #deepseacreatures #mollusks #cephalopods #oilpainting #wildlifeart #animalart 🐡 🦑
✨ SNAIL SCRIBE ARCHIVE - this new 🐌 Zooniverse transcription project is all about molluscan biodiversity data. It seeks to promote the conservation and critical scientific research of these under-appreciated animals! www.zooniverse.org/projects/ske...
More arcaheological limpets for #MolluscMonday 💙
In late prehistory HawaÏ (late 1500s/ early 1600s), shrines were built next to houses, and filled delicate food as offerings, including some neat limpet stacks, some still in their original position of deposition.
Source : tinyurl.com/dbjurdw9
Happy #MolluscMonday!
Snail shells in traditional Pacific arts:
🐚In the Marianas, Chamorro & Refaluwasch people used akaleha' tree snails to make beaded bags & jewelry
🌏Many Pacific cultures use seashells for islands in stick chart maps, combining art, science, & geography
#JoyOfMolluscs
Did you miss our webinar about mercury levels in game fish from zebra mussel infested waters last month! If so, you're in luck because the recording is now live. @maisrc.bsky.social researcher, Gretchen Hansen shared a great presentation about this research!
z.umn.edu/MercuryRising
#bioinvasions
Meet the freshwater mussel Margaritifera margaritifera. It can live for up to 130 years. It uses salmonid fishes as hosts for its larval stage. It is endangered in Europe but stable in Atlantic North America. It belongs in a different family than most other N. American & European freshwater mussels.
Yo dawg we heard you like shells...the Stimpson chimney clam is a shell in a shell. These little bivalves bore into loose shells, building little chimneys of cemented shell fragments once they grow past the thickness of their host shell. (223)
[New Paper] We found a SECOND SNAIL with HARD SCALES on the foot -- Ifremeria nautilei lives in deep-sea hot vents and makes chitinous scales not by secretion but by cell differentiation, like our own skin!
@royalsocietypublishing.org Proceedings B, OPEN ACCESS: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
Did you know.. Molluscs are the second most diverse phylum and possibly the most disparate! 🐚🦪🐌🐙🦑
A recent study by Karapunar et al. (2024) documents the phylogeny of Pleurotomariidae, the longest-living gastropod group, comparing different shell characters: buff.ly/2pEof6e @spissatella.bsky.social
We're big fans of snails over here. Here's a species that has less than 10 iNaturalist observations: Sheldonia cotyledonis!
📷 cliffdorse on iNaturalist
📍 South Africa
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay #InverteFest
The mangrove jingle shell lives attached to the lower leaves of mangroves! It is not actually air living, and still needs to be immersed by the tides occasionally to survive. Still, I consider it a sign of hope that the clams are working on invading our lands and it is only a matter of time. (209)
Enigmonia bognorensis, from the early Eocene of Hampshire UK. 55mya or so, the southern UK (and northern France) were a hot tropical sea, and at the margins were mangroves - and mangrove jingle shells!
It's #InverteFest, so it's time to correct my forgetting to post about my latest paper from a couple months ago. It has *double* the invertebrates: snails, and their parasites! doi.org/10.1093/cz/z...
Happy #MolluscMonday of #InverteFest!
Please enjoy these Partula lutaensis (Family Partulidae, Chamorro: akaleha' Luta)
These snails are only found on Rota Island in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands 🏝️
#JoyOfMolluscs #MolluskMonday 1/2
Samoana fragilis (Family Partulidae, Chamorro: akaleha'), found on Rota Island in the Northern Mariana Islands and on Guam
These snails have translucent shells, so color differences are from their flesh, not their shells
#InverteFest #JoyOfMolluscs 🐌
Semi-snails (Megaustenia app.) of Vietnam: an evolutionary link between slugs (no shell) & snails (full shell).
Their shells are thin & incomplete, & need to be covered by their skin ('mantle') which offers protection, camouflage, & secretes calcium carbonate to build more shell.
#Vietnam #snail
Hi folks. @whenua.bsky.social and I wrote a thing about my favourite snails. bioprotection.org.nz/fridge-to-fr...
Often referred to as the world's most beautiful snail, Polymita picta is a variable species presenting a vast array of colours and patterns. They are now protected in their native Cuba to prevent overcollecting as craft material.
#snails #snail #mollusk #snailsky #gastropod #gastropoda #sciart
"Native to the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of the Americas...M. strigata has become a notorious invader in parts of the United State... and Southeast Asia such as the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. In 2019, it was first recorded in India’s Kerala backwaters." news.mongabay.com/2025/08/as-f...
Our paper on the extinct Chilonopsis land snails of St Helena has just been published in @ejtaxonomy.bsky.social. We review all the old material, including what we could find of Charles Darwin's collection, and describe a new species from ongoing palaeontological work
doi.org/10.5852/ejt....
