Aug 6, 2024
Today is also #WorldOysterDay 🦪 - on a #MolluscMonday !
“Denticulated Oyster” (Striostrea denticulata)
illustration by R. P. Nodder in George Shaw’s The naturalist's miscellany Vol. 16, London, 1804-5
Via BHL
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