PHOTOS: Tiny Tropical Island Yields a Wealth of Species

PHOTOS: Tiny Tropical Island Yields a Wealth of Species
PHOTOS: Tiny Tropical Island Yields a Wealth of Species
PHOTOS: Tiny Tropical Island Yields a Wealth of Species
PHOTOS: Tiny Tropical Island Yields a Wealth of Species
PHOTOS: Tiny Tropical Island Yields a Wealth of Species
PHOTOS: Tiny Tropical Island Yields a Wealth of Species
PHOTOS: Tiny Tropical Island Yields a Wealth of Species
PHOTOS: Tiny Tropical Island Yields a Wealth of Species
PHOTOS: Tiny Tropical Island Yields a Wealth of Species
PHOTOS: Tiny Tropical Island Yields a Wealth of Species
PHOTOS: Tiny Tropical Island Yields a Wealth of Species
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Scientists sampled some 4,000 different mollusk species in Espiritu Santo. Mollusk expert Philippe Bouchet speculates that as many as 1,000 of these could be new species.

Among the finds: this sundial snail, already known to science and so named for the swirling pattern on its shell.

In a career spanning dozens of deep-sea expeditions in three oceans, Bouchet has already described more than 400 new mollusk species.
—Photograph by Annelise Fleddum, University of Oslo
 

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