Thoughts on the representation of moluska in natural history

ok so i've been looking at the non human world or the natural world at the level of representation and specifically from a lens of a pervert. or at least how nature is perverted in natural history context. and from this my aim is to offer a kind of "pervert's guide to the nonhuman world" and also maybe via this perverted and sexually charged lens we can understand colonial history of the indonesian archipelago. 

my starting point is how mainstream natural science intend to portray nature as a "normal" abject...and it is devoid from the fact that some, or, well actually.... most flowers or shell.... looks like a vagina, or anus, or penis, or shit......so i want to draw our attention to this detail and how some natures imitates the look of our (human) vital organs. or are we imitates them? 

i havent get the full detail of Linnaeus description of the venus diones shell in his Systema Naturae book yet.... but here is an interesting fact:

Linnaeus' description of Venus dione is even more vivid in his Fundamenta Testaceologiae ("Foundations of the Study of Mollusks"), published in 1771. Gould regards it as "one of the most remarkable paragraphs in the history of systematics." After stating that the hinge joining the two valves of the clam shell is a defining characteristic, Linnaeus writes Protuberantiae insigniores extra cardinem vocantur Nates, "the notable protuberances above the hinge are called buttocks" (§ IX, p. 30). The adjacent parts then are enumerated, each after the female's sexual anatomy ut Metaphora continuetur ("so that the metaphor may be continued"). Above the nates (what now is termed the umbones) is the anus (lunule). Below are the hymen (the ligament connecting the two valves), vulva and labia (escutcheon), and pubes, culminating in a mons veneris. In Table II, Figure 16, these parts all are identified by an accompanying illustration (left): a is the vulva; d, the inner labia; e, rima, "the narrow slit" of Juvenal (Satires, III.97); f, the nates; and g, the anus. It all must have seemed a ribald testaceological jest. 

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/aconite/dacosta.html

another interesting finding for this search, is the latin name given to this blue flower from Ternate by a 17th century botanist Jacob Breyne. it's called "Flos Clitoridis ternatensibus". In english called: the Clitoral Flower from Ternate. and then in 1737 it was Linneaus again who established "Clitoria" as the genus of this flower. 

to be continued ....