Ranjeev Epa PhD

Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 04:45 UTC

One of many shelly paths at Univ of South Florida. This one leads to a sitting area.
Lots and lots of #Chione
A great outdoor space to think and talk about shells 😁😁
#universityofsouthflorida
#shellsofflorida
#fossilsofflorida

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Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 02:58 UTC

#Canarium mutabile?
#molluscsofsrilanka
#strombidae

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Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 21:04 UTC

They didn't want to miss out 😊😊

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Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 01:57 UTC

#Bryozoa inside a piece of helmet shell
Specimen collected by my niece

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Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 15:10 UTC

#srilanka
#molluscsofsrilanka
#marinelife 🦑

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Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 01, 2024 at 18:32 UTC

Both naticids and muricids can drill along the edge. As opposed to wall drillings, edge drilling is a faster method but if the clam opens and closes it's valve, the snail might loose it's proboscis.

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Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 01, 2024 at 15:41 UTC

#edgedrillholes are really cool. A quick but dangerous snack... Here is the #venerid, #Dosinia drilled along the anterior- ventral margin of the shell 😋
#molluscsofsrilanka
#drillingpredation
#veneridae
#marinelife 🦑

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Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social [ View ] May 25, 2024 at 19:27 UTC

Check out the sand tube inside this venerid, #marcia optima. In addition to the sand grains, the tube maker has adorned their home with bits of clam and forams
#molluscsofsrilanka
#veneridae
#sandtube
#foraminifera
#marinelife 🦑

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Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social [ View ] May 25, 2024 at 07:00 UTC

A very stylish #Turbinella pyrum with a neat coral
#molluscsofsrilanka
#chank
#marinelife 🦑

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Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social [ View ] May 23, 2024 at 12:28 UTC

😊😊

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Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social [ View ] May 23, 2024 at 05:21 UTC

Here is a beautiful #cardiid with an incomplete #Oichnus paraboloides drill hole.
#cardiidae
#molluscsofsrilanka
#marinelife 🦑

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Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 22, 2024 at 04:58 UTC

Happy #molluscmonday
Here is a beautiful nerite, Nerita plicata
#neritidae
#gastropoda
#molluscsofsrilanka

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Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 19, 2024 at 09:34 UTC

Happy #FossilFriday
Here is a beautiful specimen from the #Ordovician #Bellevue Formation.
Check out this beautiful brachiopod hanging out with some cool snails
#brachiopoda
#gastropoda

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Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 19, 2024 at 04:02 UTC

Well this is not a post about shells
Today is #worldibsday
Some of you know that I have IBS. I've been using different social media platforms not only to share the awesomeness of molluscs but also to spread awareness about health issues that we really don't talk about enough
#irritablebowelsyndrome

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Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 17, 2024 at 13:07 UTC

Arks are not the easiest to ID (for me that is) we have plenty of them in Sri Lanka. I believe this is #Tegillarca nodifera
#Arcidae
#molluscsofsrilanka
#marinelife 🦑

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Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 15, 2024 at 11:59 UTC

Happy #MolluscsMonday
Here is another beautiful moon snail, #Polinices mammilla.
#naticidae
#molluscsofsrilanka
#gastropoda
#marinelife 🦑

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Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 12, 2024 at 15:08 UTC

Happy #FossilFriday
Here is a beautiful mold of a straight shelled #Cephalopod from the Late Ordovician (I believe from the #Richmondian stage). I also found this spine-like thing embedded within the mold. I am not sure what it is but i get #echinoid spine vibes here...
#fossilsofkentucky

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Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 11, 2024 at 05:21 UTC

Volvarina angustata
#marginellidae
#marginshell
#molluscsofsrilanka
#Marinelife 🦑

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Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 10, 2024 at 22:39 UTC

Not only do they make excellent night lights, sticking a bulb up a sea urchins mouth provides a neat way to study their tubercle arrangement.
#echinoidsofsrilanka
#echinoidea

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Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 08, 2024 at 17:11 UTC

They are the best 😍

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Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 08, 2024 at 15:31 UTC

Also clams!

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Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 08, 2024 at 11:56 UTC

😍😍

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Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 08, 2024 at 11:55 UTC

Happy #MineralMonday
#Amazonite

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Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 08, 2024 at 04:00 UTC

Happy #MolluscMonday
Moon snails are amazing in every possible way! Here is one of the pretty ones, the tiger moon snail, Paratectonatica tigrina
#gastropoda
#naticidae
#moonsnail
#molluscsofsrilanka
#marinelife 🦑

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Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 05, 2024 at 08:15 UTC

Happy #FossilFriday
Here is a beautiful cupuladriid bryozoan colony from Florida
#fossilsofflorida
#Bryozoa
#Cupuladriidae
#marinelife 🦑

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Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 02, 2024 at 02:23 UTC

Happy #MineralMonday
#pyrite

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Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 01, 2024 at 13:57 UTC

Happy #molluscmonday
Here is a beautiful internal shell of the ram's horn squid, Spirula spirula
#cephalopod
#molluscsofsrilanka
#marinelife 🦑

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Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 29, 2024 at 15:48 UTC

Happy #FossilFriday
Here is a fossil chione shell with three beautiful polydorid borings
#fossilsofflorida
#chione
#polydora
#marinwlife 🦑

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Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 25, 2024 at 13:14 UTC

Happy #mineralmonday
Here we have some #lazurite, flecks of #pyrite and #calcite making up #lapislazuli
#metamorphicrock

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Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 22, 2024 at 16:19 UTC

Happy #FossilFriday
Here is a beautiful crinoid stem from the Ordovician with bits of the calyx? preserved
#fossilsfromohio
#crinoidea
#marinelife 🦑

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Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 20, 2024 at 14:10 UTC

Aww! I bet they are off to do something really cool 😎

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Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 18, 2024 at 03:45 UTC

I was told that these shells were used by local villagers to clean (scrape) clay cooking pots
#molluscsofsrilanka
#unionidae
#freshwaterclams

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Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 18, 2024 at 03:44 UTC

Happy #molluscmonday Ranjeev's collection of shelly things were severely lacking freshwater molluscs. But a few days ago, our workmen found lots of freshwater clam shells in the sand we purchased for some construction work 😁😍
Here is #Lamellidens

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Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 15, 2024 at 11:04 UTC

Happy #FossilFriday
Check out the beautiful mollusc sections preserved on this rock. I believe this is called a #coquinajasper or #calligraphystone

#MarineLife 🦑

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Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 12, 2024 at 02:30 UTC

Happy #MineralMonday
#Amethyst

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Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 11, 2024 at 19:44 UTC

Happy #MolluscMonday
Here is a beautiful jingle shell, Anomia from Sri Lanka.
#molluscsofsrilanka

#MarineLife 🦑

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Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 04, 2024 at 01:32 UTC

Happy #molluscmonday
The beautiful angel wing shell from #Florida
#pholadidae
#angelwing

#MarineLife 🦑

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Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 29, 2024 at 03:41 UTC

Happy #TraceFossilThursday
Check out these cool #Mississippian burrows
from the Burlington Limestone of #Missouri

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Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 28, 2024 at 16:09 UTC

Happy #wormwednesday
Here is a beautiful modern Lambis shell with a pretty worm tube
#molluscsofsrilanka

#MarineLife 🦑

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Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 27, 2024 at 14:45 UTC

* Mississippian, sorry! 😊

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Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 27, 2024 at 12:19 UTC

Happy #TrilobiteTuesday
Here is a trilo"butt" from the #Ordovician Burlington Limestone of Missouri.
Also checkout the pretty #fusulinids, one perfectly sectioned.
#trilobites
#foraminifera

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Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 27, 2024 at 06:28 UTC

Aww An artistic snail. ❤️❤️

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