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====Name origin====
====Name origin====
Its English name appears to be a pun on ''Shell'' and the suffix ''-less'', as Shellos does not have a shell. Its Japanese name is a combination of 殻 ''kara'', shell, and 無くした ''nakushita'', to have lost, or 無し ''nashi'', without.
Its English name appears to be a pun on ''Shell'' and the word ''loss'', as Shellos does not have a shell. Its Japanese name is a combination of 殻 ''kara'', shell, and 無くした ''nakushita'', to have lost, or 無し ''nashi'', without. It is interesting to note that both names are derived from the word for ''loss'' with the last character taken out, although in the Japanese name, there was no more room for the た anyway.


==In other languages==
==In other languages==
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