Jim has decided that he will join the darkside for the Invertebrate Battle Royale. That’s fine! We wouldn’t want someone with such poor cognitive processes on our team. Jim’s attack centers on the ...

In general, among Mollusks, the mouth opens into a buccal cavity. In most classes of Mollusks, the buccal cavity contains a tongue called the odontophore. The odontophore possess multiple rows of ...

The supposedly widespread and variable Australasian liverwort species Radula buccinifera is nothing of the kind. The species was described in 1844, and reported for New Zealand in 1855. It has gone on ...

The radula sounds like something from a horror movie -- a conveyor belt lined with hundreds of rows of interlocking teeth. In fact, radulas are found in the mouths of most molluscs, from the giant ...

Move over, marijuana: Scientists have their eye on a THC-like psychoactive chemical found in the unassuming, lumpy Radula, a group of plants in the liverwort family. That’s not to say that some people ...

It’s been a long year, and with the holiday season upon us, nobody needs an excuse to unwind. But for those who do, look no further than the humble liverwort plant, native to New Zealand and Tasmania, ...

Holotype. USNM 196169, (35K), National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC, USA. Referred material and locality. One-hundred and eighty-eight specimens (Royal Ontario Museum) from the Greater ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Patella vulgata L. were collected from high- and low-water levels on five different beaches and the lengths of the shell and radula measured.

Simple plants aren't always easy, proves the Radula buccinifera complex, formed of "primitive," small, moss-like plants called liverwort. Molecular and morphological evidence show that what was ...