Mollusk Gallery

Extinct bivalve mollusks: Pholadomya and Terebratula species

Extinct bivalve mollusks: Pholadomya and Terebratula species. Handcolored lithograph from Dr. F.A. Schmidt's Petrefactenbuch, published in Stuttgart, Germany, 1855 by Verlag von Krais & Hoffmann. Dr. Schmidt's Book of Petrification introduced fossils and palaeontology to both the specialist and general reader

© Florilegius / Mary Evans

Nudibranch

Nudibranch (Gymnodoris aurita). Nudibranchs are shell-less marine molluscs that live in seas around the world. Here the external gills (top) can be seen which give the nudibranch its name, meaning naked gills. Photographed off Rinca, Indonesia

© GEORGETTE DOUWMA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

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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

© Mary Evans / Natural History Museum

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