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#DIADVENT2022 | Day 3

Snail of the Day: Alviniconcha strummeri

‘Punk rock’ snail named for the Clash’s Joe Strummer

Scientists have named a spiky shelled, deep-sea snail after Joe Strummer, the late lead vocalist and guitarist from the famed British punk band the Clash. The researchers say the name highlights the “hardcore” nature of the snail, now known as Alviniconcha strummeri, which lives in one of the hottest, most acidic environments on the planet -- right up against hydrothermal vents in the Indian and western Pacific oceans.

A paper describing the Joe Strummer snail and four similar species was published this month in the journal Systematics and Biodiversity.

“I do a lot of outreach, and when I talk to kids I always tell them these snails are punk rock,” said Shannon Johnson, a scientist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute and the lead author on the paper. “So, when it came time to name them, we were like -- we should totally name them after a punk rocker.” Johnson said the team chose Strummer not just because of his iconic punk status, but also because he was an environmentalist who strove to be a carbon-neutral artist.

“The deep sea is the biggest unexplored environment in the world,” she said.

Alviniconcha strummeri and the other snails named in the paper are what are called cryptic species, meaning it is impossible to tell them apart by looks alone. They have relatively thin shells, and grow quite large --somewhere between the size of a golf ball and a softball. The color of their shells changes depending on the chemical makeup of their environment. They have been found as deep as 11,500 feet beneath the ocean surface and as shallow as 1,150 feet. But specimens have never survived a journey to the surface. “Their proteins are unfolding by the time we get them up,” said Johnson.

Most Alviniconcha are found in piles around the deep-sea vents, eating the microbes that mine the chemicals shooting into the water for energy. Scientists are not sure why the snails’ shells are so spiky, but Johnson said one thought is that it increases the surface area of the shell, allowing more bacteria to grow on it. “These guys are covered in bacteria, but we don’t know what they are doing with it,” she said.

However, there is no denying that the spikes add to the punk-rock look of the snail. Strummer, who died in 2002, is not the first musician to have an animal named after him. For example, in June 2013, scientists named an ancient, giant lizard after the “lizard king” Jim Morrison.
- https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-punk-rock-joe-strummer-snail-20141216-story.html

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die hörschnecke...

sorry für den eventuell auftretenden furchtbaren ohrwurm.
aber immer wenn ich zur weihnachtszeit mit dem liedchen in kontakt komme, denke ich meine hörschnecke demonstriert laut ;)

ein Dankeschön an @(: aNNa :) blume

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[here are the “rules of the game” - in de, fr, en, it]
I hope deepl has translated everything correctly ;-)

[de] ♥ wer hat Lust mitzumachen ?
Jeden Tag wieder 1 Türchen im Diaspora-Adventskalender zu gestalten ?
Bild malen, Fotos posten, Fotos bearbeiten, etwas sticken … mach was dir Spaß macht und markiere es mit #Diadvent2022 und poste es öffentlich
Viel Spaß beim mitmachen. Ich wünsche Euch eine gute Zeit
Bonus:
vorletztes Jahr gab es #birdmas20 – letzes Jahr #pigmas21 & dieses Jahr konntet ihr abstimmen und habt euch für #snailsmas22 entschieden ;-)

ping@Silvia Aldovini & @Escargolio ;-)

[fr] ♥ qui a envie de participer ?
De refaire chaque jour 1 porte du calendrier de l’Avent de la diaspora ?
Peindre une image, poster des photos, retoucher des photos, broder quelque chose … fais ce qui te plaît et marque-le avec #Diadvent2022 et poste-le en public.
Amuse-toi bien en participant. Je vous souhaite de passer un bon moment
Bonus :
l’avant-dernière année il y avait #birdmas20 - l’année dernière #pigmas21 & cette année vous avez pu voter et vous avez choisi #snailsmas22 ;-)

[en] ♥ who wants to participate ?
To create every day again 1 door in the Diaspora Advent Calendar ?
Paint a picture, post photos, edit photos, embroider something … do what you like and mark it with #Diadvent2022 and post it publicly.
Have fun participating. Have a great time
Bonus:
year before last there was #birdmas20 - last year #pigmas21 & this year you could vote and chose #snailsmas22 ;-)

[it]♥ chi vuole partecipare?
Creare ogni giorno 1 porta nel Calendario dell’Avvento della Diaspora?
Dipingete un quadro, postate foto, modificate foto, ricamate qualcosa… fate quello che vi piace e contrassegnatelo con #Diadvent2022 e postatelo pubblicamente.
Divertitevi a partecipare. Divertitevi
Bonus:
l’anno scorso c’era #birdmas20 - l’anno scorso #pigmas21 e quest’anno si poteva votare e scegliere #snailsmas22 ;-)

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Schweine gibt es in der Kunst ja zuhauf , nach Schnecken muss man hingegen wirklich suchen.

Hier habe ich dieses Bild gefunden, auf dem ein Ritter gegen eine Schnecke kämpft. Das scheint im Mittelaalter ein wiederkehrendes Motiv gewesen zu sein - schon witzig, wohin #snailspora einen führen kann ;-)

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