Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells (44 page)

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Authors: Helen Scales

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Nature
262

nautilids
189

92

Nautilus, Belly-button
177

White-patch
177

nautiluses
21
,
27
,
176

8
,
289

chambered nautiluses
44
,
50

1
,
176
,
221

modern shell trade
221

3

nautilus cups
203

4

reproduction
222

Nelson, Horatio
153
,
155

Nepinnotheres pinnothere
169

neuroscience
75

6
,
240

1

Nipponites
188

Noctiluca scintillans
257

nodal gene
66

nudibranchs
18
,
42

nutrient pollution
108

9

Obinautilus
193

ocean acidification
261

8

how to probe an ecosystem
273

6

sea butterflies
268

73
,
274

5

why time matters
276

82

octopuses
21
,
26
,
27
,
35
,
41
,
42
,
76
,
178
,
182

argonauts
173

6

dumbo
43

intelligence
72

nautiluses
176

8

reproduction
200

1

Ocythoe antiquorum
178

cranchi
177

Odontogriphus
31

2

olive snails
39

Olivera, Baldomero
237

8
,
239
,
241
,
242
,
251
,
252

Olsen, Ole Theodor
124

On Growth and Form
52

4
,
55
,
148

ornaments
10

11

Oster, George
71

2
,
73

6
,
231

Ostrea edulis
124

overfishing
18
,
103
,
109

12
,
222

Owen, Richard
193
,
199
,
220

1
,
225

Oyster, Mangrove
100

1
,
115

16

Native
124
,
126
,
127

8
,
129
,
143

4

Pacific Rock
104
,
119

Windowpane
11
,
249

50
,
288

oysters
27
,
39
,
43
,
44

adventures of an oyster
128

34

European oyster beds
123

5

Mumbles oysters
122

3
,
125

8
,
143

4

overfishing
111

12

palm oil
96
,
97

Parapuzosia
187

Parkinson’s disease
241
,
243

Partula
228

9

patterns
67

8

computer models
69

72

patterns as memory
72

6

stripes
70

1

triangles
71

pearl shells
93

pearls
213
,
247

8

pen shells
147

50
,
163

6
,
169

periostracum
25
,
68

Periwinkle, Flat
16

periwinkles
16
,
41

Pes, Assuntina and Giuseppina
158

60
,
161
,
171

Peters, Winfried
40

pigments
67

8

Pinna nobilis
146

7

plankton
19

Plectronoceras
180

Pliny the Elder
101
,
169

Poli, Giuseppe Saverio
194
,
198

pond snails
286

Pontonia pinnophylax
169

Portuguese Man-of-war
261

pottery
78

Power, Jeanne
194

9
,
205
,
264

5

Prialt
242

Prideaux, Charles
206

proboscis
42

3
,
49
,
234
,
235

quahogs
93

radiolarians
19
,
257

Radix, Big Ear
62

radula
31
,
32
,
33
,
36
,
37

8
,
43
,
234

Rafinesque, Constantine Samuel
178

Raup, David
54

9
,
62
,
63
,
69
,
187

rays, electric
42

3

razor clams
246

7
,
286

Reeve, Lovell Augustus
229

30
,
232

Rembrandt van Rijn
64

Renfrew, Colin
86

Richter, Claudio
110

Riebesell, Ulf
275

6
,
278

right-coiling shells
63

7

RoboClam
246

7

Rockshell, Belligerent
136

Rumphius, Georg Eberhard
235

saccoglossans
37

8
,
168

9

Sacks, Oliver
243

sacrificial objects
90

1

Safavi-Hemami, Helena
242

satsuma snails
66

7

Scallop, Cuming’s
227

8

scallops
11
,
17
,
27
,
41
,
62
,
286

scaphopods
27
,
28
,
34
,
35

Science
57

sclerites
28
,
31
,
33
,
36
,
250

Scripps Institution of Oceanography
43

scuba diving
17

18

sea anemones
17
,
143

sea angels
41
,
258

9
,
272

sea butterflies
41
,
255

60

ocean acidification
268

73
,
274

5

reproduction
260

sea cucumbers
26

sea firs
135

sea slugs
18
,
37

8

sea snails
24

5
,
62
,
286

sea squirts
26
,
142
,
257

sea urchins
19
,
26
,
58
,
188
,
264
,
283

sea-silk
145

6
,
166

7
,
170

1

byssus
147

50

objects made from sea-silk
150

4

production
154

6

Project Sea-silk
152

3

weaving
156

64

seashells
9

15
,
285

6

Sedgwick, Adam
184

Seeley, Harry
184

5

Séfériades, Michel Louis
87
,
88

Selkirk, Alexander
210

11

Seronay, Romell
251

sexual symbolism
79

80

Shackleton, Nick
86

shamanism
88
,
89

90

shell middens
99

100

shell trade
220
,
287

8

nautiluses
221

3

shell trumpets
9

10
,
63

4
,
80

1

shell-collecting
13
,
204

5
,
208
,
287

9

Coral Triangle expedition
216
,
218

21

Discoverer
expeditions
209
,
210

15

modern shell trade
220
,
287

9

Museum Cuming collection
226

32

shell-makers
14
,
18

Shell, Flame
134

6

Noble Pen
146

7
,
148
,
149
,
153
,
156
,
160
,
168
,
170
,
171
,
204

shellfish
18

19

shamanistic consumption
89

90

shipworms
44
,
245

shrimps
19
,
169

Singer, Peter
105

sinistral shells
63

7

siphons
42

slave trade
93

6

Sloane, Hans
152
,
231

slugs
18
,
21
,
25
,
27
,
28
,
40

predatory slugs
38
,
49

Smith, Martin
32

3

Smith, Stephen
35
,
36

Smith, William
185

6
,
231

Snail, Clusterwink
45

Cooper’s Nutmeg
42

3

Geography Cone
235
,
241
,
242

Magician’s Cone
242

Marbled Cone
64

Purple Cone
239

40

Roman
65

Scaly-foot
250

1

Tulip Cone
242

snails
21
,
25
,
27
,
28
,
35
,
40

operculum
43

raising young within the shell
44

Snake, Iwasaki’s Snail-eating
67

Solander, Daniel
209

solenogastres
28
,
32
,
35

Sowerby, George Brettingham
216
,
229

30

Spanish Dancer
261

spirals
16
,
45

spiral growth
50

4

Spondylus
61
,
85

91
,
93
,
228

Cuming’s
228

sponges
17
,
28
,
85
,
135
,
142

squid
21
,
27
,
28
,
41
,
42
,
178
,
182

Squid, Colossal
181

starfish
17
,
26
,
43
,
131
,
168
,
286

Starfish, Crown-of-thorns
12

13

status symbols
84

8

Steiner, Ulli
249

Steinmann, Gustav
179

Stylobates
143

Thesaurus Conchylorium
230

Thompson, D’Arcy Wentworth
52

4
,
55
,
148

thorny oysters
61
,
85

tools
78

tower shells
63

toxins
64

toxin cabals
239

40

Trampsnail, Asian
65

tributyl tin (TBT)
245

Tridacna costata
110

trilobites
29
,
30
,
180
,
186

Triton, Giant
12

14

tritons
80
,
81
,
288

TRY Oyster Women’s Association
113

20

Tudge, Colin
25

tulip shells
44

Turing, Alan
71

turrid snails
38
,
251

2

turtles
53

tusk shells
27
,
93
,
138

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
151

2
,
176
,
197

Vanhaeren, Marian
82

Varna, Bulgaria
77

8
,
84

8

Vermeij, Geerat
59

62
,
60
,
66
,
74

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