Dear friends, It's that time of year again! Voting is opens today for international Mollusc of the Year There are five finalists, the winner is decided by a popular vote - We have five amazing molluscs who are all deserving winners for 2025 Arctica islandica - a.k.a. world's oldest mollusc Cellana exarata - 'opihi makaiauli / Hawaiian black-foot limpet Glaucus atlanticus - the blue dragon Muusoctopus sp. - the Dorado Octopus Xenophora conchyliophora - a mollusc who is itself a shell collector YOU decide the champion, and we sequence its genome. Vote now, and tell your friends and family! (and also any journalists you happen to know!) Read more and vote here: https://moty.senckenberg.science Voting ends 31 March Cheers, Julia Sigwart & Carola Greve Prof. Dr. Julia Sigwart Head of Section, Malacology Senckenberg Research Institute and Museum, Frankfurt, Germany julia.sigwart@senckenberg.de You couldÂ… Watch how species get named - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn7kUDRVcVM Subscribe to the Senckenberg Ocean Species Alliance - http://sosa.senckenberg.de Join the Molluscalist community - https://www.listserv.dfn.de/sympa/subscribe/molluscalist Download my book "What Species Mean" - http://bit.ly/whatspeciesmean bit.ly/SMFMalacology | @sigwartae Julia Sigwart (to subscribe/unsubscribe the EvolDir send mail to golding@mcmaster.ca)