Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Scallop anatomy diagram

Anatomical diagram of a scallop

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Original – Anatomy of the right side of a scallop, including detailed information on the circulation and nervous systems as well as all the major organs. Note that the intestines are embedded within the gonad, and that portions of the left side (principally the gills and the shell) are not shown.

Reason

This is a renomination of this file from a year and a half ago, with much improvement/ adjustment. Image is freely licensed, is of high technical quality and biological accuracy, and has strong visual appeal. I also consider this a work in progress for the moment, and welcome any suggestions for changes or improvements to it, even minor things. This is likely to be my last FP nomination for awhile— too much time spent drawing!

Articles in which this image appears

Pectinidae

FP category for this image

wp:Featured pictures/Sciences/Biology

Creator

KDS4444

• Support as nominator – KDS4444^Talk 13:02, 4 October 2014 (UTC)
• After generating this page, I forgot to transclude it onto the list of candidates— so it is now a day or two behind schedule! Can this be taken into account when the voted are tallied? Am hoping so. It was a careless mistake on my part, and am hoping it won't end up counting against me. KDS4444^Talk 09:39, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
  • I've fixed it. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 13:34, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
• Support - Barely recognized it! Very nice. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 11:35, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
  • Though it would be best if the whole background was white, rather than just a block. You still have transparency — Crisco 1492 (talk) 11:37, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
• Comment I can't quite figure out what the left branch of the Intestines label is pointing to. There's a tube on the right side, but... Maybe add a cutaway so that anatomy interior of the gonad is a little easier to see? Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 13:34, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
• Support Hafspajen (talk) 13:45, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
• What is the label for the digestive gland pointing to? It seem to either be pointing to two lines or spanning an area where there doesn't seem to be anything disernable as a "gland" (I'm such a gland expert; that came out wrong, but you'd expect to see something). Also (nothing to do with the picture really), do we only normally eat female scallops? Scallops I've been server/prepared all seem to have orange "coral" (which I now know is the gonad; thanks for that!) which would suggest they are female. Belle (talk) 14:46, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
  • There's a bit of a yellow-brown thing just sticking out from under the stomach at the top. I think that's the gland. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 15:02, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
    • I did wonder; perhaps some bars at the end of the crossing line would make it clearer. Belle (talk) 15:04, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
• Support --Fauzan^{✆ talk}_{✉ mail} 20:43, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
• Support - Well done.--Godot13 (talk) 05:46, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
• Author's comment-- There seems to be some confusion regarding my annotation lines, and I definitely need to find a better way to show what is what here. The digestive gland is supposed to be the entire black mass at the top of the image, enveloping the stomach— the thing sticking out behind it is a loop of the intestine which does not pass through it but rather behind it. I think I may be able to move the intestinal loop lower, however, and clear up the confusion here and elsewhere with a different style to some of my annotation lines. Gimme just a coupla minutes to see if I can wrangle it into place! And thank you all for the commentary! KDS4444^Talk 13:24, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
• Small comments. The "Anterior" arrow is not exactly horizontal. There is a border of transparency around the white background which seems unnecessary. It is not very clear to me what "Adductor muscle" is pointing to. Is it the whole of the whitish mass in the middle of the creature or something around its edge? 86.160.86.63 (talk) 13:34, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
• Oh, also, I'm not quite clear if the gill is the bright orange semi-circle or the yellow section just above it - the pointer points directly between them. If it's both, it'd be better to put the pointer on both; if not, one of them is unlabelled. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 13:48, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
• Author's follow-up I believe I have fixed these lingering ambiguities. I have used annotation lines with circles at the ends to indicate whole organs (please let me know if there are any which still seem ambiguous or confusing) and have added some text to make the locations of some overlapping organs more explicit. KDS4444^Talk 14:15, 10 October 2014 (UTC)
  • Very, very nice. Your images always start good, and end fantastic. Support. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 15:30, 10 October 2014 (UTC)
  • I have one further cosmetic suggestion: It would be nice if the "Anterior" and "Posterior" labels and arrows looked more symmetrical, i.e. had the same vertical positioning and had more similar (mirror image) spatial relationships between text and arrow. 81.152.70.161 (talk) 17:56, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
    • An excellent suggestion. Let me do that right now. KDS4444^Talk 01:17, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

Promoted File:Scallop Diagram2.svg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 13:10, 16 October 2014 (UTC)