Between the 16th and 19th centuries, when colonialism was the prevailing order, it is not surprising that scientific expeditions, specimen deposits in natural history museums, and descriptions of ...

A researcher has reviewed, from a molecular and morphological point of view, a family of marine gastropod molluscs, the Aeolidiidae nudibranch, and discovered eighteen new species. Molluscs are ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Prem Bahadur Budha is Nepal’s leading malacologist, having described 18 new-to-science species of mollusks, mostly land snails, from his homeland.

A new study assessed immune responses in four economically important marine mollusk species -- the blue mussel, soft-shell clam, Eastern oyster, and Atlantic jackknife clam -- and identified new ...