THE object of the author was to establish the fact that the system of blood-containing spaces pervading the body in Mollusca and in Arthropoda was not, as sometimes (and indeed usually) supposed, ...

Snails, mussels, squids -- as different as they may look, they do have something in common: they all belong to the phylum Mollusca, also called mollusks. Researchers have now carried out research into ...

Snails, mussels, squids – as different as they may look, they do have something in common: they all belong to the phylum Mollusca, also called molluscs. An international team of researchers headed by ...

Beachcombers know that seashells appear in an endless array of colors and shapes, and researchers have just discovered that this variation extends to the molecular level. In fact, each shell is as ...

In the April, 2004, issue of BioScience, a team of 16 experts from around the world report on the diversity and plight of what may be the world's most endangered group of animals – nonmarine mollusks ...