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Evolutionary purpose? Obviously they protect the mollusc, but why are some of them beautiful? It doesn't seem like good camoflage and they aren't a display...

Ctenidium (mollusc), Diverticula (mollusc), Lira (mollusc), Mantle (mollusc), Sculpture (mollusc), Septum (mollusc), Spire (mollusc), Umbilicus (mollusc), Valve...

pages with a well defined name, such as "arthropod exoskeleton" or "mollusc shell". Given the current confusion in some of the articles, I'm going to...

molluscs", but our official state mollusc (or mollusk; I'm not sure how the law spells it), which is a gastropod, is not listed, because it is shell-less...

Talk:Mollusca. Anyway, can we please categorise this redirect as for Mollusc: {{Rcat shell| {{R from move}} {{R to scientific name}} {{R from American English}}...

ultimately give the shell its remarkable mechanical strength. The application of biomimetic principles elucidated from mollusc shell assembly and structure...

crustaceans. Bivalves and gastropods are protected by a calcareous shell which grows as the mollusc grows." This is not a good description. Monoplacophora do show...

serve that cannot be achieved by including {{sea shell topics}} on related pages, as as Mollusc shell? Martin (Smith609 – Talk) 19:37, 22 September 2008...

Paguristes puncticeps raid octopus middens, both for food and for empty mollusc shells? Reviewed: Morgenglanz der Ewigkeit Created by Cwmhiraeth (talk). Self-nominated...

mollusc in the family Mitridae. This species is found in the tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans and may reach 87 mm (3.4 in) in length. Mitre shells are...

in a local beach, never saw such a mollusc in my life. they are quite beautiful, the snail is black while its shell is pure white. People dont often see...

(chitinous toothed “tongue”), a feature which is otherwise only known in molluscs. Some researchers think the pattern of its scales links its closely to...

organization, and shell evolution". Evolution & Development. 2 (6): 340–347. doi:10.1046/j.1525-142x.2000.00077.x. PMID 11256378. From Mollusc shell: Jacobs David...

of the day Five views of a shell of Tonna galea, a species of marine gastropod mollusc in the family Tonnidae. The shell is very large, with an average...

a perfect description of the shell of an oyster with an oyster within it, as if from someone who knew nothing of mollusc biology. Could this have been...

In Shelled molluscs were placed in the Testacea, together with barnacles and tube worms i don't know enuf to confidently byp the Dab to [[[tube worm (body...

crab Calappa hepatica uses its powerful pincers to break open the shells of molluscs? Reviewed: Claude Watney 5x expanded by Cwmhiraeth (talk). Self-nominated...

having read the 2002 paper, I did not change this but maybe one of you mollusc experts will want to do that. In any case, as gomesii is aparently close...

2009 (UTC) Just had a thought: isn't it possible for a nacreous-shell-bearing mollusc to produce a NON-nacreous pearl? I seem to recall that such items...

"If you visualize a coiled snail shell as being a cone of shelly material which is successively wrapped in a spiral way around a central axis, then the...