Talk:Mollusc shell

Reason for beauty
Evolutionary purpose? Obviously they protect the mollusc, but why are some of them beautiful? It doesn't seem like good camoflage and they aren't a display like Peacocks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 183.89.54.56 (talk) 11:22, 28 July 2018 (UTC)

Large article, no discussion?
This article seems quite large for one with NO discussion over the body. Not necessarily a bad thing, but that can allow for opinion or incorrect information. I noticed the article is mostly edited by a small amount of people making large contributions along with material that is not written like an encyclopedia or seems copied from elsewhere. Andrew Colvin (talk) 00:06, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

Reference to broken DOI
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Shell nucleation - verifying information and noting apparent plagiarism
In the Formation section, there's a line: "Nucleation is endoepithelial in Neopilina and Nautilus, but exoepithelial in the bivalves and gastropods." attributed to Scheltema & Schander (2010, in press), apparently published in Acta Zoologica. I have been unable to locate that particular reference, nor a specific source from those two authors supporting the statement. I did find that exact sentence, though, in the book Principles of Systematic Zoology by Rudy Willis (an author who I have also not been able to find any background on-- a professor? a zoologist? seemingly not a malacologist but that could be incorrect) on page 266. However, that section of the book itself seems to be plagiarizing this exact Wikipedia page. My reasoning for that is that the edits done in the Formation section of this page are older than the book itself, which was originally published in 2019. Also, significant sections of the adjacent chapter are taken verbatim from this page. For example, this is a link to a version of this page from 2017, two years before the aforementioned zoology book went to press, and this is a link to a page in the book with multiple lines blatantly taken from this page. So there are two potential issues: (1) Where does this statement about nucleation come from? How do we correctly cite its source? ( I suspect it to be true but that's based in anecdotal evidence not actual sources ) and (2) Who plagiarized whom and what's the remedy for the whole situation? Not really sure how to address this, other than continuing to parse through the literature for solid, verifiable references. -Procyonidae (talk) 21:09, 23 November 2021 (UTC)