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  • Modiolus (Nahant, Mass., 1864) (6 drawings) by The Ernst Mayr Library on Flickr.

    Modiolus (Nahant, Mass., 1864) (6 drawings) by The Ernst Mayr Library on Flickr.

    Tagged: jacques burkhardt scientific drawings Modiolus Mussel Mollusks Mytiloida Mytilidae

    Posted on May 7, 2013 with 95 notes

  • evanv123: “Mussel Shell Study” 2012, blown glass cylinders, hot sculpted and cold worked glass mussel shells and found mussel shells 14”x13”x5.5”

    evanv123:

    “Mussel Shell Study” 2012, blown glass cylinders, hot sculpted and cold worked glass mussel shells and found mussel shells 14”x13”x5.5”

    Tagged: mussel shell mussel marine beach nature art sculpture glass blown glass carved ocean sea anatomy science biology study specimen shell mytilus edulis

    Posted on June 3, 2012 via Primordial Imagery with 70 notes

  • evanv123: “Mytilus Edulis” (Blue Mussel shell with barnacle) 2011, Hot sculpted and cold-worked blown glass 14”x7.5”x7”

    evanv123:

    “Mytilus Edulis” (Blue Mussel shell with barnacle) 2011, Hot sculpted and cold-worked blown glass 14”x7.5”x7”

    Tagged: art sculpture glass blown glass mytilus edulis mussel mussel shell shell beach ocean marine sea nature biology anatomy science specimen study carved cold worked

    Posted on May 20, 2012 via Primordial Imagery with 56 notes

  • n88_w1150 by BioDivLibrary on Flickr. Anatomie de L’Anodonte Cygne ou Moules des  Etangs Atlas des mollusquesParis :Roret, libraire, Rue Hautefeuille, au coin de celle du battoir,[182-?]biodiversitylibrary.org/item/54052

    n88_w1150 by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.

    Anatomie de L’Anodonte

    Cygne ou Moules des  Etangs

    Atlas des mollusques
    Paris :Roret, libraire, Rue Hautefeuille, au coin de celle du battoir,[182-?]
    biodiversitylibrary.org/item/54052

    Tagged: Pictorial works Shells SIL Smithsonian Institution Libraries mussel mollusc

    Posted on December 2, 2011 with 74 notes

  • n478_w1150 by BioDivLibrary on Flickr. Various freshwater mussels Note that the female of Unio radiatus resembles a fish. This is because the young are parasites of fish gills so this fish shaped lure acts to attract predatory fish that attack it and get infected with mussel larva. See this post at Scrubmuncher’s Blog for more info Evolution of active host-attraction strategies in the freshwater mussel tribe Lampsilini (Bivalvia: Unionidae) (pdf) Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. v.6.Philadelphia :The Society, 1839.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/111017

    n478_w1150 by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.

    Various freshwater mussels

    Note that the female of Unio radiatus resembles a fish. This is because the young are parasites of fish gills so this fish shaped lure acts to attract predatory fish that attack it and get infected with mussel larva.

    See this post at Scrubmuncher’s Blog for more info

    Evolution of active host-attraction strategies in the freshwater mussel tribe Lampsilini (Bivalvia: Unionidae) (pdf)

    Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. v.6.
    Philadelphia :The Society, 1839.
    biodiversitylibrary.org/item/111017

    Tagged: Periodicals Science Social sciences SIL Smithsonian Institution Libraries mussel shell shells Illustration science

    Posted on October 30, 2011 with 19 notes

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