The new genome-based phylogeny of the phylum Mollusca is consistent with the fossil record and morphology and confirms the ancestry of mollusks. "We can now provide a clearer picture of the ...

With names like “knobby rams-horn,” “masked duskysnail” and “Hoko vertigo,” Pacific Northwest mollusks may have an amusing image, but they’re also some of the most intriguing invertebrates in the ...

Snails are marvelous but unassuming little creatures. As shelled members of the taxonomic class Gastropods within the phylum Mollusca, snails are found on both land and in the sea. Typically ...