A Violet Snail (Janthina sp.) preying on a By-the-wind Sailor (Velella velella)

#NewSpecies!
New sea snail from #Brazil just crawled in:

Voluta melodica

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4008878E-FFD3-A83F-890E-DFF6FF4BFBE1
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11606/1807-0205/2024.64.031
#PapéisAvulsosDeZoologia #VolutaMelodica

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #malacology #gastropods #snails #seasnails

#NewSpecies!
New sea snail from #NewCaledonia just crawled in:

Ethalia anomphala

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/714FF54E-375D-326C-FD86-FEF9FD9BFAE2
Publication: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2024.973.2765
#ejtaxonomy #EthaliaAnomphala

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#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #malacology #gastropods #snails #seasnails

Turbinate Monodont (Phorcus turbinatus)

Shared this in reply to someone's post, so thought y'all might like to see it too.

I haven't been able to draw like this in a couple of years because of pinched nerves and tennis elbow. The nerve problem seems resolved, so I hope to get back into drawing (and painting!) more once spring rolls around.

Mmmm, spring rolls....

#art
#BadPuns
#BlackAndWhiteDrawing
#InkDrawing
#b&w
#gastropods
#snails

New paper in Diversity and Distributions using @gbif mediated data:

When One Global #Invasion Hides Another—Cryptic Interspecific Invasion in #Freshwater #Gastropods

#CiteTheDOI:

#OpenAccess: ️

https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13958

“More than 1,300 tiny snails reintroduced to remote Atlantic island
The Desertas Island land snails have been set free to roam on the uninhabited island of Bugio, near Madeira”
#Molluscs #Gastropods #Madeira #Desertas #Discula #Geomitra
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/28/more-than-1300-tiny-snails-reintroduced-to-remote-atlantic-island

This #snail looks like it has a QR code on its house.