testaceotheology

noun

1. The "theology of shellfish", or the study of divine or spiritual significance attributed to shellfish, such as clams, oysters, and other mollusks.“Friedrich-Christian Lesser’s Théologie des insectes appeared in two French translation, in 1742 and 1745. But there were not only insects, and the material was inexhaustible: a Lithotheology, a Testaceotheology, a Petinotheology, and an Ichthyotheology all appeared. What had begun as a pious intention became a bookselling enterprise.”