| Molluscs and M Guide - Resources and Review
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| Reference information about a host of sea creatures including killer whales, eagle rays, common puffins, harbour porpoises, coral reef animals, and estuary and coastal water animals. An illustration of each animal is accompanied by details of their class, order, size, family, scientific name, range, diet, conservation status, and habitat. General facts about sea turtles and invertebrates such as sponges, molluscs, echinoderms, and cnidarians are also offered.
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Initiative which monitors water quality and pollution in areas where shellfish are harvested. Features an official fact sheet, growing area classification maps, a molluscan harvesting guide, information about Canada's Shellfish Sanitation Program which aims to eliminate the consumption of contaminated products, and an Atlantic classification inventory from 1992.
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Provides accounts of nonindigenous aquatic species including amphibians, reptiles, fish, mammals, tunicates, bryozoans, sponges, coelenterates, annelids, molluscs, crustaceans, algae, and plants. Offers distribution maps and fact sheets for each species.
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Background information and links to resources on the largest invertebrates on the planet. Includes an illustrated history of mythology surrounding the molluscs, from mermen in the 1500s to tales of squid as monsters in the 1800s. Describes how squid eat, move, reproduce, and defend themselves, and details a comparison between squid and snails.
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Society dedicated to education and research on molluscs. Includes tables of contents of the Journal of Molluscan Studies.
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Provides illustrated information about tide pools, specifically those found in the US Pacific Northwest, and on tidal zones, Tide Pool Tips, and an index of organisms. Tide pools are created where rocky shores are covered and uncovered daily by the ocean.
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International journal covering the biology of molluscs, featuring molecular genetics, cladistic phylogenetics and ecophysiology, as well as coverage of ecological, behavioural and systematic malacology. Tables of contents and abstracts are freely available from 1996. Full text access is restricted to current subscribers.
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A database of aquatic species introduced or transferred from one country to another, including freshwater fish, molluscs, crustaceans and marine species.
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Information about collections within each of the six divisions of the museum which cover insects, molluscs, fish, reptiles and amphibians, birds, and mammals.
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