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This site provides a searchable database that allows the user to search for taxonomic references by taxon, geographical locality, author or keyword.
http://www.mnhn.fr/base/malaco.html

Overview of endangered, common, and exotic freshwater and marine bivalves and gastropods.
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Alabama Mollusks Overview  Alabama and a bordering state. Some of this diversity can be attributed to the variety of ecosystems found in Alabama's beautiful land formations, river systems and coastline. Another factor contributing to this diversity may be the fact that during the...
http://fly.hiwaay.net/~dwills/alaview.html

Pictures of North American clams and mussels from Environmental Education on the Internet (EE-Link).
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Endangered Mollusks: Images  Habitat destruction and degraded water quality due to impoundments, channelization, agricultural practices, inceasing barge traffic and siltation, and reduction of water flow. Where found: Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia Crackling Pearly MusselHemistena lata Status: Endangered Status...
http://eelink.net/EndSpp/ESimages/ESmollusks.html

Introduction to the major molluscan classes.
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Mollusks  There is one thing that all mollusks have in common: a foot. The foot is used for different purposes in each class, as you will see. Here are four classes of mollusks: 1) Class: Cephalopoda 2) Class: Bivalvia 3) Class:...
http://www.cyhaus.com/marine/mollusk.htm

General information about classes of mollusks with extensive links.
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Nearctica Natural History Mollusks General  Mollusca is divided into six extant classes. Three of these classes have separate pages devoted to them, while the three smaller classes are dealt with below. This page also contains the sites with information crossing class boundaries. The six classes...
http://www.nearctica.com/nathist/mollusks/mollusk.htm

Information on all aspects of the study of mollusks in Latvia.
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Malacology in Latvia Malakologie in Lettland  This site is added to the BIOSIS and Zoological Records. We obtain largest information resources about the malacology in Latvia and a lot of data on other Baltic and World countries. The complete list of Latvian molluscan species, bibliography, data...
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hall/9551/index.html

Species checklists organized by region.
http://home.sprynet.com/~wfrank/florida.htm

Online field guide to freshwater bivalves and gastropods.
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Aquatic Mollusca of Illinois  Anodontoides ferussacianus (Lea, 1834 Cylindrical Papershell Arcidens confragosus (Say, 1829 Rock Pocketbook Lasmigona complanata (Barnes, 1823 White Heelsplitter Lasmigona compressa (Lea, 1829 Creek Heelsplitter Lasmigona costata (Rafinesque, 1820 Flutedshell Simpsonaias ambigua (Say, 1825 Salamander Mussel SE Strophitus undulatus (Say, 1817...
http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/cbd/ilspecies/mollusksplist.html

Information about mollusks from the Animal Diversity Web.
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/mollusca.html

Information from the Tree of Life Project about mollusk systematics with references and links.
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Mollusca  Go to navigation for this section of the ToL site Go to quick links Go to quick search Go to detailed site links Site Navigation Browse Help Features Learning Contribute About advanced go to beginning of page Temporary Page Containing...
http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Mollusca&contgroup=Animals

Listing of major taxa in the region in all molluscan classes with line drawings of some species.
http://turin.net/catalogue_shell/

Identification guide to Hawaiian bivalves and gastropods.
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Mollusks Page 1 Keys to the Aquatic Biota of the Hawaiian Islands  The diversity of mollusks is not very great in freshwaters, but increases in brackish and estuarine waters, and is tremendous in marine waters. The major molluscan subgroups found in fresh and brackish waters are snails (Class Gastropoda) and clams and...
http://www.aecos.com/CPIE/inv_03.html

Brief description of each class of Mollusks.
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M30.htm  The molluscs rival the arthropods in their diversity of body forms and sizes, as well as their ecological success. The phylum also provides some of the most familiar animals, such as snails clams mussels squids and octopus (which, like the...
http://www.meer.org/M30.htm

A guide to the sea shells of New South Wales, Australia, with high quality images and detailed information.
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Seashells of New South Wales  Based on the collections of the Australian Museum and of the author This release 10 June 2005 New in this release: Fissurellidae (Keyhole Slit limpets) Anatomidae Scissurellidae (Minute slit shells) How to navigate this site Table of Contents by Common...
http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/

Includes checklists of the shells inhabiting the islands of Malta and Gozo in the central Mediterranean.
http://geocities.com/maltashells

Distribution information and photos for 44 species of mussels, pill clams, and snails.
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Aquatic Mollusks of North Dakota  A filled square indicates a collecting site where live specimens were collected. An empty square denotes a site where only empty shells were observed. Disclaimer: The maps shown were created by graphically displaying data presented in the appendix of Cvancara...
http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/inverts/mollusks/mollusks.htm

Images from Singapore, West Malaysia, and southeast Asia. Includes facts on the varied habitats of these creatures.
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Molluscan Pictures Home (mollusks mollusk molluscs mollusc snails)  Home Updated Directory. Have a SPOOKY Halloween Has 119 visitor (s) online. Last modified on Tuesday, 25-Oct-2005 22:35:29 SGT Bintan 2005 Johore 2005 II Johore 2005 Sarawak 2005, East Malaysian Borneo Phuket, Thailand Exploration Trails ShellNutX Add your links Events...
http://www.molluscan.com/

Species checklists organized by region.
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Harry Lee's Florida Mollusk Checklists  Visitor since 21 February, 2001...
http://www.jaxshells.org/florida.htm