Still within the subject of 20,000 Leagues and mollusks, Philippe Bouchet
and Anders Warén named Marginella aronnax in 1985 after Professor Pierre
Aronnax, the somewhat pedantic, museum-based marine biologist who was
envious and insecure of Nemo’s far-flung achievements …

Bouchet P. & Warén A. (1985). Revision of the Northeast Atlantic bathyal and
abyssal Neogastropoda excluding Turridae (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Bollettino
Malacologico Suppl. 1: 121-296

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David Campbell
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http://www.gutenberg.org/files/164/164-h/164-h.htm has a translation of
Verne (1869).  Quite a few of the hits if you search for "shell" are
molluscan, though biogeography and appropriate translation of mollusk names
(into this English version) doesn't seem to be a strong point.  I'm
surprised that Harry didn't mention the sinistral Oliva porphyria from New
Guinea(!) that the narrator finds.  

Nesiocypraea teramachii polyphemus Lorenz, 2002 is the only molluscan
Polyphemus that appears in WoRMS, though mollusks can settle on or otherwise
be associated with Limulus polyphemus (Linnaeus, 1758); there's also a
cladoceran genus, a species of dinoflagellate, and a junior synonym of a
sponge.  On land, Antheraea polyphemus is among the commonest silk moths in
eastern North America.  The nassarid Cyclops Montfort is preoccupied by the
copepod, so Cyclope Risso, 1826 is valid for it.

WoRMS actually lists two small gastropods with "nemo" for a species (Bartsch
at least partly responsible for both), as well as a Laevicardium nemo
considered a nomen dubium.  Nemocardium is another mollusk name with some
resemblance.  

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