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Information on gastropods from an aquarist's viewpoint. Includes pages on specific orders of gastropods, as well as a general gastropod FAQ.
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Gastropods The following taxonomic scheme is largely framed after Robert Barnes Invertebrate Zoology 5th Ed with modifications from http sn2000.taxonomy.nl/Main/Classification/35476.htm Snails Commonly (and not) Encountered in the Marine Pet-Fish Interest: The Class Gastropoda, the Snails: are divided into two Subclasses: Prosobranchia...Expedition to the deep sea of the Bahamas to explore the world of slitsnails. From the Smithsonian Institutes National Museum of Natural History.
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Living Fossils of the Deep, An Expedition to the Bahamian Seafloor, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History We greatly appreciate your interest and welcome comments. Send comments to costello.robert@nmnh.si.edu. These pages are best viewed at 800 x 600 monitor resolution. site map science team bahamas photo gallery slitsnails dispatches...A brief yet informative description on the characteristics of gastropods. Includes links to specific examples of gastropods.
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Gastropod, any mollusk of the class Gastropoda, which includes snails and slugs They form the second largest class in the animal kingdom, outnumbered only by insects. The most recent estimate of the number of known species is 37,500, a revision downward from an earlier estimate of about 80,000. Gastropods vary considerably in...The list provides a current systematic framework and summary of the taxonomic diversity of Panama Paleontology Project (PPP) mollusc collections collected, curated and identified from project inception till October 2000.
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NMITA Gastropod taxonomic list Systematic list of gastropods in the Panama Paleontology Project collections Jonathan A. Todd Department of Palaeontology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, U.K. SW7 5BD J.Todd@nhm.ac.uk -Systematic List- Introduction The following list provides a current systematic framework and summary...Overview of gastropod classification from the Animal Diversity Web.
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/mollusca/gastropoda.html
Overview of biology and taxonomy; species list for Montana.
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Gastropoda The largest and most diverse group of mollusks. The phylum Mollusca in a ancient group that is second in size only to the arthropods. There are over 50,000 living species and about as many fossil species known. Mollusks are unsegmented,...A virtual encyclopedia of sea snails. The catalog is organized taxonomically, and contains pictures, common and scientific names, and basic taxonomic information for a large number of species.
http://www.gastropods.com/
Contains an online version of The Freshwater Snails of Florida, a manual for identification, prepared by Fred G. Thompson.
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The Freshwater Snails of Florida A Manual for Identification The aquatic snail fauna of the southeastern United States has long been recognized for its richness and diversity. Throughout the 19th and 20th Centuries malacologists made frequent field trips to explore river systems that were poorly known, and to revisit...Documents and illustrates the current geographic distribution of abalone (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda: Haliotidae: Haliotis) world-wide.
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ABMAP: The Abalone Mapping Project Daniel Geiger's site last updated April 2003...Large collection of gastropod specimen images (over 900 species) from the Philippines, rarely represented in the literature.
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EURASIASHELLS .NET Iconographia of Philippine malacofauna Tenir le hasard pour indigne de notre destin ce n'est rien d'autre qu'une rechute dans la conception pieuse du monde Sigmund Freud, 1910 Environ 2,800 espéces sont illustrées, inclus Mitroidea galement des Holotypes et Paratypes, ainsi que d'autres specimens rarement...Research on the mollusks of southwestern United States by Harold (Dave) Dyer.
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Mollusks of the Southwest and the Colorado Plateau Terrestrial mollusks have not been well studied in the western United States. Most survey information dates to the early 1930's. While a few studies have been done in areas of special interest (ex. the Grand Canyon very little is known...