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Mollusca Research

Molluscs are the second most diverse group of animals and the one with higher number of species in the marine environment. They have a staggering diversity of body shapes, ecologies, and sizes from minute worm like animals living between sand grains, to clams and gastropods with flamboyant shells, mysterious giant squids and octopuses and of course the dazzling bright coloured nudibranchs. At the Natural History Museum of Bergen we research on various aspects of the morphology, diversity, systematics, phylogenetics, ecology, biogeography, and evolution of molluscs, using state of the art methods like DNA barcoding, molecular phylogenetics, and electron microscopy. Our geographic scope covers nearly the whole World with projects on the Norwegian Sea, West Africa, Caribbean Sea, Indo-Pacific Ocean and Antarctica.

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Museum party at the WCM2022

World Congress of Malacology 2022

The Museum at the World Congress of Malacology

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Chrysallida sp. Pyramidellidae

New Research Project on Lower Heterobranchia gastropods

A project on poorly known molluscs funded by The Norwegian Taxonomy Initiative (Artsdatabanken)

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Monisha Bharate PhD student

New PhD student

Investigating the diversity and evolution of Smaragdinella snails

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Examples of scaphandrid shells

First global phylogeny of a deep-sea group of molluscs

Exploring deep-sea biodiversity across the World

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Martina Turani

Unravelling the secretes of Haminoea diversity in the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific Oceans

Martina Turani: internship at the Natural History Museum