Introduction to Molluscs then and now

Hi,

This starts the blog Molluscs then and now, which continues from the long neglected Cepha-blog.  However this new blog will include all, or most all of the Mollusca, not only cephalopods but gastropods and pelecypods (Bivlavia) as well.

Some of the information to be presented over time will come from online research, other from having worked in the collections of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, and still other from a collection of seashells from the Pacific island of Tutuila, American Samoa, collected by my parents while there in 1941 and '42.

I intend on covering relevant items of interest, at least of interest to me, and maybe you. Some of it will have to do simply with the shells, leaving the animal that created it to inference. Other will delve into the animal itself, its physiology, life cycle, range and habitat.

Coming  up, Vampiroteuthis, which is not what you may have been told.

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