mollusk
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Among them is Veleropilina gretchenae, a newly identified mollusk recovered from the Aleutian Trench at 6,465 meters.
From Science Daily • Nov. 2, 2025
The mystery mollusk is the first known nudibranch to live in a deep-water column, specifically in the ocean’s midnight zone — open water about 1,000 to 4,000 meters below the surface.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2024
It wasn’t a worm, a mollusk, or a crustacean.
From Science Magazine • Sep. 21, 2023
The mollusk specialist Alan Solem estimated in 1990 that, of roughly 200 Hawaiian species of one snail family, the Endodontidae, in Honolulu's Bishop Museum, fewer than 40 had been described.
From Salon • May 31, 2023
Some afternoons he leaves Marie-Laure in the laboratory of Dr. Geffard, an aging mollusk expert whose beard smells permanently of damp wool.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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