Mollusca Collection (page 7)

Common Starfish (Asterias rubens) and Common Cockle (Cerastoderma edule) on the beach, The Netherlands, Noord-Holland

Argonauta argo (female), octopus
A glass model of an octopus, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London

Blue-Ringed Octopus (Hapalochlaena), internal anatomy, cross-section

Freshwater Great Ramshorn Snail -Planorbarius corneus- under water

Burgundy Snail or Edible Snail -Helix pomatia-, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

Hundred-eyed cowrie shells C016 / 6027
Pair of hundred-eyed cowrie (Cypraea argus) shells. This marine gastropod is found across the Indo-Pacific. The name hundred-eyed refers to the particular type of shell pattern

Thatcheria mirabilis, Japanese wonder shell
This spectacularly spiralling shellfish is a member of the Turrid family who catch their prey by harpooning them with a modified radula (tooth) and poisoning them with a nerve toxin

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The Palau chambered nautilus, Nautilus belauensis, is mainly found in the Western Carolines as its name suggests. These nautilus are highly mobile scavenging herbalists

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Giant Pacific octopus, Enteroctopus dolfleini, or North Pacific giant octopus, British Columbia, Canada

Giant Pacific Octopus, Enteroctopus dolfleini, British Columbia, Canada
Giant Pacific octopus (Enteroctopus dolfleini), or North Pacific giant octopus; British Columbia, Canada

Broadclub Cuttlefish, Philippines
A close look at the head and eye of a Broadclub cuttlefish (Sepia latimanus); Philippines

Nudibranch, Fiji
An aeolid nudibranch (Caloria indica) photographed on hard coral polyps (Diploastrea heliopora) in Fiji at 50 feet; Fiji

Cuttlefish
This female Broadclub cuttlefish (Sepia latimanus) is about to deposit an egg into the finger coral. The egg can be seen just back from the end of her tentacles; Philippines

Seashell Composite

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Arrangement of empty white shells on a black sandy beach rippled by the elements, Reynisfjara, Vik, Sudhurland, Iceland

Hydatina physis, rose-petal bubble shell
Watercolour 399 by the Port Jackson Painter, entitled Kallee dere, from the Watling Collection

Dr Karl Jordan (1875-1972)
Curator of entomology at Walter Rothschilds Zoological Museum at Tring from 1893, beyond Rothschilds death and up to the transition to the Natural History Museum at Tring in 1938

Emma Rothschild (1844-1935)
Mother of Tring Museum founder Walter Rothschild

Emu, rheas and kangaroos at Tring Park
Live animals collected by Walter Rothschild in the grounds of Tring Park, with keeper Mr Marcham, 1890 Date: 1890

Walter Rothschild Bird skin collection, 1933
Packed for shipping. The majority of Rothschilds (280, 000 items) bird skin collection was sold the AMNH in New York after he ran into financial difficulties

Lesser Octopus, Eledone cirrhosa, side view

Mussels -Mytilus- on a rock on the coast of Newquay, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Common spider conch shells C016 / 6042
Pair of common spider conch (Lambis lambis) shells. This heavily ornamented gastropod, has large shell projections. It originates from the Western Indo-Pacific

Pecten sp. scallop
A fossil scallop from the Corallian Crag of Suffolk, England. Scallop shells are made up of two hinged plates and are a genus of bivalve mollusc

Fossil shells of the Miocene Tertiary Period
Plate II from Principles of Geology, being an attempt to explain the former changes of the Earths surface. Vol. 3 1832-33 by Charles Lyell (1797-1875)

Plate 77 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

Strombus gigas, queen conch
Plate 2. Watercolour by Jean Charles Chenu from his Illustrations Conchyliologiques, part 17 (1843)

Tridacna gigas, giant clam
A pair of giant clam (Tridacna gigas). This endangered species is the largest living molluscs and can reach sizes of over 1m

Aptyxiella portlandica (Sowerby), Portland screwstone
A gastropod steinkern or internal cast of a Portland screwstone (Aptyxiella portlandica) from the Jurassic Portland Stone, Top Roach, Portland

Nipponites mirabilis, ammonite
This ammonite from the Upper Cretaceous of Japan displays a loose, tangled coil

Hippurites radiosus, rudist mollusc shell
Rudist mollusc shells are elongated molluscs and were also reef builders. Specimen dates from the Late Cretaceous, Des Moulins, Charente, France

Oyster shell with pearl
Oyster is a name given to a group of molluscs which can be found on sea beds, often in coastal waters. The pearl, a smooth spherical object can form inside its shell

Five bivalve fossils
(Top) Chlamys fibrosa; (Centre left) Chlamys splendens; (Centre right) Perampliata ampliata; (Lower left) Mytilus ungulatus; (Lower right) Trigonia reticulata

Coloured SEM of mother of pearl from oyster shell
Mother of pearl. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of calcite crystals in mother of pearl from an oyster (shell)

Wonderpus Octopus, Wunderpus photogenicus, Lembeh Strait, North Sulawesi, Indonesia

Two Painted Lady shells (Phasianella australis), close up

Two Australian Trumpet shells (Syrinx aruanus), close up

Two Common Northern Whelk shells (Buccinum undatum), close up

Two Banded Tulip shells (Fasciolaria lilium), close up

Giant Triton or Trumpet Triton shell (Charonia tritonis), close up

Entomology, W. Rothschild Zoological Museum
The Museum was bequeathed to the Natural History Museum following Rothschilds death in 1937, along with its unique collections of preserved animals

Walter Rothschild Bird skin collection, 1932
Packed for shipping. The majority of Rothschilds (280, 000 items) bird skin collection was sold the AMNH in New York after he ran into financial difficulties

Alfred Newton (1829-1907), Professor of Comparative Anatomy at Cambridge University in the late 19th Century. Newton was an expert ornithologist and tutored Walter Rothschild in anatomy

Tridacna maxima R�g, 1798, giant clam
Plate 76 from a bound volume of illustrations used for Lamarcks Genera of shells. Watercolour and graphite on paper, c. 1820 by Anna Children (became Atkins) (1799-1871) Date: 1820

Nautilus sp
Alice Bolingbroke Woodward (1862-1951). Watercolour on paper. Alice Woodward was taught science and illustration by her father Henry Woodward

Hans Sloanes nautilus shell
Sir Hans Sloane is perhaps the most important collector ever. His huge collection forms the core of both the British Museum and the Natural History Museum

Various Mollusca and Crustacea species
Watercolour from the Thomas Hardwicke Collection, c.1820 Date: circa 1820

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