Invertebrate / Mollusc

Rocky shore line ecosystem zonation of species.  Some of the animals and pants featured include whelks, mussels, bladderwrack, star fish, top shells, periwinkles, crabs, branacles, and anenomes.  Illustration from The Hidden Universe: Adventures in Biodiversity by Alexandre Antonelli

Blue mussels Mytilus edulis with byssal threads on wooden piling.  Illustration includes barnacles and limpets, and some bladder wrack seaweed.  Illustration from “30 Animals that made us smarter” by Patrick Ayree (BBC Books).

Garden snail Helix aspera with grey body and yellow and brown shell cut to white

Animals shown are spider, snail, centipede, worm, woodlouse, pseudoscorpion, mite, slug, ground beetle, earwig, and spider

Close up detail of the suckers on an Octopus tentacle Illustration from “30 Animals that made us Smarter” by Patrick Aryee (BBC Books)

Illustration of the Carribean reef octopus which shows cryptic colouration. Illustration from the cover of “30 animals that made us smarter” by Partick Aryee.  Illustration cannot be re-used in any other book titles.

Illustration of the Carribean reef octopus which shows cryptic colouration. Illustration from the cover of “30 animals that made us smarter” by Partick Aryee.  Illustration cannot be re-used in any other book titles.

common cockle Cerastoderma edule pair of shells from one animal, cut to white

Giant pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis cut to white

Nautilus pompilius pen and ink stippled illustration

Topshell sketch in colour cut to whtie

Garden snail Helix aspera line drawing in pen and ink cut to white