Four cone snails sit on a white surface. The shells are pale purple or yellow in colour and are adorned with complex, dark markings as well as as white areas.
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The Snowflake Cone (Conus floccatus) is a gorgeous shell growing to 60-70 mm. Normally pale purple in colour, those with a yellow background are referred to as the 'magdalenae' form.
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Hey, all! @nikihubbard.bsky.social keeps adding more nudis & slugs to this amazing collection of molluscan color palettes - so fun! 🤩 🌊🫧🐌🎨🦑 #MolluscMonday #MolluskMonday #MarineLife #RStats
OH NOES! Watch out fish! Cone Snail ATTACK! #molluscmonday youtu.be/S_LjnwVxGL0?...
Whoa. this video is 15 years old-but is a CLASSIC showing the feeding of cone snails! or at least, this cone snail! #molluscmonday #ecology youtu.be/UHiGuquJmpE?...
MOAR Cone snail ATTACK! video! especially those crazy feeding rostrum moments! #molluscmonday #ecology youtu.be/V0zzti4Ubas?...
A lovely video about how Cone snails attack prey! "If its a Cone, leave it alone" haha! good advice! #molluscmonday #ecology youtu.be/4wihKnARrAw?...
Here's some spindle cowries chewing off tissue on this gorgonian! #molluscmonday #ecology www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Cone snail vs. other snail! #molluscmonday #ecology www.inaturalist.org/observations...
MOAR snail on snail EAT action# #molluscmonday #ecology www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Huh. Never realized how many snails eat OTHER snails! #molluscmonday #ecology www.inaturalist.org/observations...
oh WHOA. This Nebularia snail gobbling up this peanut worm! OH NOES! Kwajalein Atoll #ecology #molluscmonday #wormwednesday www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Dogwhelks feeding on this fresh moribund worm! #molluscmonday www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Whoa. Mollusc vs. Mollusc attack drama! Moon Snail or Whelk?? who is attacking WHO?? #molluscmonday www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Whoa. Cone snails are such the "bad boy" predator of snails! Here's one eating a polychaete! from Indonesia #molluscmonday www.inaturalist.org/observations...
🐙«“It turns out the world’s most famous octopus fossil was never an octopus at all” remarked lead author Thomas Clements»
New paper by Clements et al. reveals nautiloid characters in /Pohlsepia mazonensis/ (doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.2369)
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It’s #MolluscMonday !
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#MolluscMonday Centre of another sectioned ammonite from the Middle Jurassic Inferior Oolite of England.
Sign reads: Day Use Only Except for Digging Clams Violators Vehicles Towed Away at Owners Expense and Will Be Subject to a $125.00 Fine
Sign posted at a beach on Whidbey Island, Washington. How do they determine if the vehicles belong to clam diggers? @dantheclamman.blog #MolluskMonday #MolluscMonday
Golden cowrie
Golden cowrie
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Newly added to my shelf: a dark orange form of the golden cowrie (Cypraea aurantium). A beautiful seashell.
A Spider Conch lies on a white background. The shell bears several digitations. Thr aperture has dark lines and the operculum present.
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A new addition! Lambis robusta is a rare Spider Conch from Tahiti. This one measures 128 mm in length
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#Noetia ponderosa and friends from Tampa FL
Let's see, we have some #polydorid borings, worm tubes, maybe an oyster cemented on the inside
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#MonarchMonday
#OwlishMonday
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#MolluscMonday Bivalve borings in a fragment of a fallen marble column from the ruined Temple of Serapis at Puzzuoli, Italy. The temple was famously figured by Charles Lyell in his Principles of Geology (1830).
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