Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells (45 page)

vermetid snails
136

Verne, Jules
151
–
2
,
176
,
197

vicuña
167

Vigo, Chiara
161
–
7
,
170
,
171

Villepreux-Power, Jeanne
194
–
9
,
205
,
264
–
5

Vinther, Jakob
35
–
6

Waite, Herbert
244
,
245

Walcott, Charles Doolittle
29
–
31
,
180

Whelk, Lightning
64

whelks
17
,
44
,
93
,
102

dog whelks
82
–
4
,
245
,
286

Whittington, Harry
30

Wickett, Michael
262

Winkle, American Sting
126

Winter, Amos
246
–
7

Wiwaxia
30
–
3
,
250

Wolfe, Kennedy
264

Woolmer, Andy
121
,
123
,
125
–
6
,
133
,
143
–
4

Worm, Peacock
168

worms
21
,
30
,
31
,
142

Wrack, Knotted
16

Wrasse, Cuckoo
17

Wren, Sir Christopher
52

Zoological Journal
178

zooxanthellae
45

zu Ermgassen, Philine
132

A sacoglossan sea slug beside its spiralling (Archimedean) egg ribbon

Bobtail Squid with its flamboyant, communicative mantle on display

Lined Chiton, its shell made of eight overlapping plates

A gaping Giant Clam

A
Spondylus
thorny oyster

An Aztec double–headed serpent made of turquoise, red
Spondylus
and white conch shell, probably part of a sixteenth–century ceremonial costume

A Little Egg Cowrie

Mask made from a large
Spondylus
shell in Manabi, Ecuador between 800 and 400 BC

Andy Woolmer pouring oysters into the sea off the Mumbles in Swansea Bay, Wales

A handful of Native Oysters ready to go back to the seabed

A Striped Hermit Crab. It has made a
Calliostoma
top shell its home, with a fringe of stinging hydroids clinging to the outside