February 2020 SUY: Gastropods & Similar

Unfortunately I have been a bit busy this weekend, but I will make a point of posting my gastropods soon.

Please share your snails, slugs, limpets, and some clams/bivalves for more diversity!

I look very much forward to see what is out there

Melo melo and Conus marmoreus, both homemade.

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for the moment this old pic

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QuollMate wrote:

Unfortunately I have been a bit busy this weekend, but I will make a point of posting my gastropods soon.

Please share your snails, slugs, limpets, and some clams/bivalves for more diversity!

I'll get some up soon. In the meantime, 'Gastropoda' won, so let's keep the bivalves for another time :) [it's OK if they sneak into the pic if they are displayed together on your shelves ]

Here are most of my gastropods (this is a copy-and-paste from my Synoptic post):

Terrestrial snails and slugs:
1. air-breathing land snail, Euhadra amaliae (Kaiyodo)
2. air-breathing land snail, Euhadra peliomphala (Kitan Club)
3. shining Leptopoma, Leptopoma vitreum (Kaiyodo)
4. garden slug, Ambigolimax valentianus (Takara Tomy A.R.T.S.)

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Marine snails:
1. false fusus, Hemifusus tuba (AAA)
2. Japanese Babylon snail, Babylonia japonica (AAA)
3. scaly-foot snail, Chrysomallon suamiferum(Ikimon)
4. Beyrich's slit-shell, Mikaotrochus beyrichii (Epoch)
5. emperor slit-shell, Mikaotrochus hirasei (Kaiyodo)
6. panther cowrie, Cypraea pantherina (Safari LTD)
This could represent either this species or the tiger cowrie, C. tigris; my assignment is my personal choice.

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Sea slugs (nudibranchs).
This group is no stranger to figure form. Play Visions, Yujin, and Kitan Club all released sets of 8-10 species. Getting complete sets is hard, so I will probably add to this slowly over time.

These three are propped up on various bases:
1. sea angel, Clione limacina (Takara Tomy A.R.T.S.)
2. predatory nudibranch, Tyrannodoris luteolineata (Agatsuma Entertainment)
3. hooded nudibranch, Melibe viridis (syn. M. japonica) (Agatsuma Entertainment)

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These eight species are all small figures from various Nature Techni Colour sets by Kitan Club or Ikimon:
1. blue angel, Glaucus atlanticus
2. Kunei's sea slug, Goniobranchus kunei
3. Bullock's nudibranch, Hypselodoria bullocki
4. blue dorid, Hypselodoria festiva
5. celestial phyllidia, Phyllidia coelestis
6. elegant phyllidia, Phyllidia elegans
7. black-and-white sea slug, Trapania naeva
8. red-spot nudibranch, Ardeadoris cruenta

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Very nice :)

You have many rare animals in your collection, thanks for sharing.

So much good stuff! I would have expected a few muricids given their shell ornaments.

bmathison1972 wrote:

QuollMate wrote:

Unfortunately I have been a bit busy this weekend, but I will make a point of posting my gastropods soon.

Please share your snails, slugs, limpets, and some clams/bivalves for more diversity!

I'll get some up soon. In the meantime, 'Gastropoda' won, so let's keep the bivalves for another time :) [it's OK if they sneak into the pic if they are displayed together on your shelves ]

Because of the general lack of interest in and reduction in topics available for SUYs, I don’t think we are going to have another like this anytime soon. I think it would be acceptable to fit them into this thread because of that.

Yesterday I was searching and searching in my Bully-boxes for these, but could not find them, - and then I woke up this morning and knew I had put them in the box with the snakes
Why ? Well, perhaps because there was room for them in the box? A good example how NOT to keep the models easy to find

Here they are !
From the good old days of Bullyland, when they were enormously interesting and among the bravest ones in the market  

Banana slug ( no 64378), brown slug ( no 64376), and red slug ( no 64377), made 1994-1999 :

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Edible snail, no 64375, made 1994 till recently.
The light one is the oldest one and was replaced by the dark one which was made untill recently, and is so realistic that it made one of my friend scream, when she saw it on the table in the garden  
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QuollMate wrote:

bmathison1972 wrote:

QuollMate wrote:

Unfortunately I have been a bit busy this weekend, but I will make a point of posting my gastropods soon.

Please share your snails, slugs, limpets, and some clams/bivalves for more diversity!

I'll get some up soon. In the meantime, 'Gastropoda' won, so let's keep the bivalves for another time :) [it's OK if they sneak into the pic if they are displayed together on your shelves ]

Because of the general lack of interest in and reduction in topics available for SUYs, I don’t think we are going to have another like this anytime soon. I think it would be acceptable to fit them into this thread because of that.

I think it is good enough just with gastropoda, we can always open new topics by invitation or so and without polls and I can take note of Blaine's interest of opening a SUY for bivalvia.

bmathison1972 wrote:

Here are most of my gastropods (this is a copy-and-paste from my Synoptic post):

Terrestrial snails and slugs:
1. air-breathing land snail, Euhadra amaliae (Kaiyodo)
2. air-breathing land snail, Euhadra peliomphala (Kitan Club)
3. shining Leptopoma, Leptopoma vitreum (Kaiyodo)
4. garden slug, Ambigolimax valentianus (Takara Tomy A.R.T.S.)

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Marine snails:
1. false fusus, Hemifusus tuba (AAA)
2. Japanese Babylon snail, Babylonia japonica (AAA)
3. scaly-foot snail, Chrysomallon suamiferum(Ikimon)
4. Beyrich's slit-shell, Mikaotrochus beyrichii (Epoch)
5. emperor slit-shell, Mikaotrochus hirasei (Kaiyodo)
6. panther cowrie, Cypraea pantherina (Safari LTD)
This could represent either this species or the tiger cowrie, C. tigris; my assignment is my personal choice.

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Sea slugs (nudibranchs).
This group is no stranger to figure form. Play Visions, Yujin, and Kitan Club all released sets of 8-10 species. Getting complete sets is hard, so I will probably add to this slowly over time.

These three are propped up on various bases:
1. sea angel, Clione limacina (Takara Tomy A.R.T.S.)
2. predatory nudibranch, Tyrannodoris luteolineata (Agatsuma Entertainment)
3. hooded nudibranch, Melibe viridis (syn. M. japonica) (Agatsuma Entertainment)

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These eight species are all small figures from various Nature Techni Colour sets by Kitan Club or Ikimon:
1. blue angel, Glaucus atlanticus
2. Kunei's sea slug, Goniobranchus kunei
3. Bullock's nudibranch, Hypselodoria bullocki
4. blue dorid, Hypselodoria festiva
5. celestial phyllidia, Phyllidia coelestis
6. elegant phyllidia, Phyllidia elegans
7. black-and-white sea slug, Trapania naeva
8. red-spot nudibranch, Ardeadoris cruenta

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Very very interesting. Are the Agatsuma Entertainment figures plastic or resin?

Andreas, they are plastic like all other Japanese style figures, but they are solid with no assembly. I reviewed the whole set in the miscellaneous Japanese figures section

bmathison1972 wrote:

Andreas, they are plastic like all other Japanese style figures, but they are solid with no assembly. I reviewed the whole set in the miscellaneous Japanese figures section

Thank you :)

I'll get mine

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Takara Tomy food-themed snails, a random blue slug from AliExpress, and my Yowie Wiwaxia. I’ve got more at home.

Very rare species

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Modern. Deep sea and reef.

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Prehistoric. Wiwaxids, brachiopods, a generic snail for my Paleozoic reef, and Kimberella.

Congratulations my friends          
Here are my gastropods  

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Very nice figures. Why i missed this topic?

There are some really awesome figures here, thanks folks!

Kitan Blue sea dragon

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Wow, that shiny blue colour is beautiful and it looks like it is a really detailed representation of the species!

Looks like its glowing! Great figure!