Portal:Gastropods/Did you know/6

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...that because of its aquatic origin and resemblance to the vulva, the shankha (carved examples pictured) is linked with female fertility and is an integral part of Tantric rites?

...that Rudolph Bergh (pictured) specialized in sexually transmitted diseases and in nudibranchs?

...that there are 36 taxa of gastropods federally listed endangered or threatened in the USA (map pictured)?

...that Orthalicus reses (shell pictured) lives only in tropical hardwood hammocks in Florida?

...that Robert C. Murdoch (pictured) did malacological research in New Zealand?

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