Short description: Overview of and topical guide to gastropods
This outline is provided as an overview of, and organized list of articles relevant to, the subject of gastropods (snails and slugs):
Gastropod – any member of the class Gastropoda, which includes slugs and snails.
What type of things are gastropods?
Gastropods can be considered to be, or viewed as, the following:
Types of gastropods
- marine gastropod
- non-marine gastropod
- freshwater gastropod = all are freshwater snails (with very few exceptions)
- terrestrial gastropod = terrestrial mollusc
- land snail
- land slug
- semi-slug
Taxonomy
- Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Ponder & Lindberg, 1997)
- Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005)
- Changes in the taxonomy of gastropods since 2005
- List of gastropods described in the 2000s
- List of gastropods described in 2010
- List of gastropods described in 2011
- List of gastropods described in 2012 - 2012 in molluscan paleontology#Newly named gastropods
- List of gastropods described in 2013 - 2013 in paleomalacology#Gastropods
- List of gastropods described in 2014 - 2014 in molluscan paleontology#Newly named gastropods
- List of gastropods described in 2015 - 2015 in molluscan paleontology#Gastropods
- List of gastropods described in 2016 - 2016 in molluscan paleontology#Gastropods
- List of gastropods described in 2017 - 2017 in paleomalacology#Gastropods
Biology of gastropods
- malacology
- malacologist – List of malacologists
Gastropod anatomy
- mollusc shell, seashell
- gastropod shell, conch, conch (instrument)
- protoconch
- apex (mollusc)
- spire (mollusc)
- planispiral
- sculpture (mollusc)
- lira (mollusc)
- varix (mollusc)
- columella (gastropod)
- aperture (mollusc)
- lip (gastropod)
- anal sulcus
- mentum
- parietal callus
- plait (gastropod)
- siphonal canal
- siphonal notch
- stromboid notch
- umbilicus (mollusc)
- periostracum
- selenizone
- clausilium
- operculum (gastropod)
- epiphragm
- mantle (mollusc) and mantle cavity
- body wall
- propodium
- caudal mucous pit
- nidamental gland
- Parapodium
- Semper's organ
- suprapedal gland
- snail slime
- sensory organs of gastropods
- caryophyllidia
- Hancock's organ
- osphradium
- rhinophore
- nervous system of gastropods
- euthyneury
- streptoneury
- torsion (gastropod)
- digestive system of gastropods
- proboscis#Gastropods
- radula
- odontophore
- hepatopancreas = digestive gland
- style (zoology)
- Respiratory system of gastropods
- ctenidium (mollusc)
- cerata
- pneumostome
- siphon (mollusc)
- circulatory system of gastropods
- excretory system of gastropods
- reproductive system of gastropods
- apophallation
- Love dart
- number of other genital structures: reproductive system of gastropods#Genital structures
Gastropod anatomy |
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| Shell |
- Aperture
- Apex
- Body whorl
- Callus
- Columella
- Lip
- Lira
- Nacre
- Periostracum
- Peristome
- Planispiral
- Plait
- Protoconch
- Sculpture
- Selenizone
- Siphonal canal
- Siphonal notch
- Spire
- Stromboid notch
- Suture
- Umbilicus
- Valve
- Varix
- Whorl
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| Other hard parts |
- Clausilium
- Love dart
- Operculum
- Pearl
- Radula
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| External soft parts |
- Caryophyllidia
- Caudal mucous pit
- Cerata
- Cnidosac
- Mantle
- Mentum
- Notum
- Parapodium
- Pneumostome
- Rhinophore
- Semper's organ
- Siphon
- Suprapedal gland
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| Internal soft parts |
- Circulatory system of gastropods
- Crop
- Ctenidium
- Digestive system of gastropods
- Diverticula
- Excretory system of gastropods
- Gastric shield
- Hancock's organ
- Hepatopancreas
- Hypobranchial gland
- Nephridium
- Nervous system of gastropods
- Nidamental gland
- Odontophore
- Oesophageal pouch
- Osphradium
- Reproductive system of gastropods
- Respiratory system of gastropods
- Sensory organs of gastropods
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| Other |
- Epiphragm
- Pseudofeces
- Torsion
- Circumesophageal nerve ring
- Trochophore
- Tyrian purple
- Veliger
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Life cycle
- mating of gastropods
- trochophore
- veliger
- estivation
- hibernation
Gastropods according to conservation status
- List of recently extinct molluscs
- List of extinct in the wild animals
- List of critically endangered molluscs
- List of endangered molluscs
- List of vulnerable molluscs
- List of near threatened molluscs
- List of least concern molluscs
- List of data deficient molluscs
Gastropods as a resource
- List of edible molluscs
- heliciculture
Commercial mollusks |
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| Marine gastropods |
- Abalone
- Periwinkle
- Whelk
- Buccinum undatum
- Bullacta exarata
- Kelletia kelletii
- Kelletia lischkei
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| Land and freshwater gastropods |
- Helix pomatia
- Cornu aspersum
- Helix aperta
- Cepaea nemoralis
- Otala lactea
- Escargot
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| Free-swimming marine bivalves |
- Scallop
- Queen scallop
- Pecten maximus
- Pecten jacobaeus
- Argopecten irradians
- Placopecten magellanicus
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| Infaunal bivalves |
- Clam
- Atlantic surf clam
- Soft-shell clam
- Mercenaria mercenaria
- Austrovenus stutchburyi
- Saxidomus nuttalli
- Arctica islandica
- Cockle
- Geoduck
- Spisula solidissima
- Paphies ventricosa
- Paphies australis
- Tuatua
- Ruditapes largillierti
- Grooved carpet shell
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| Sessile bivalves |
- Oyster
- Mussel
- Pearl oyster
- Pinctada maxima
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| Freshwater bivalves | |
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| Cephalopods | |
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| Techniques |
- Heliciculture
- Gathering by hand
- Clam digging
- Dredging
- Oyster farming
- Oyster boats
- Pearl farming
- Pearl diving
- Ama divers
- Trawling
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List of fishing topics by subject |
Edible mollusks |
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| Bivalves | | Clams |
- Atlantic jackknife
- Atlantic surf
- Geoduck
- Grooved carpet shell
- Hard clam
- Horse
- Mactra stultorum
- Blunt gaper
- Ocean quahog
- Pacific razor
- Venus
- California butterclam
- Senilia senilis
- Smooth clam
- Soft-shell
- Triangle shell
- Tuatua
- Japanese littleneck
- Razor clam
- Pod razor
- Ensis (razor genus)
- Paphies
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| Cockles |
- Common
- Blood
- Goolwa
- New Zealand
- Sydney
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| Mussels |
- Blue
- Mediterranean
- New Zealand green-lipped
- California
- Brown
- Asian/Philippine green
- Date
- Mytilidae (mussel family)
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| Oysters |
- Eastern
- Olympia
- Southern mud
- Colchester native
- Pacific
- Portuguese
- Windowpane
- Rock
- Sydney rock
- Ostra chilena/Bluff
- Gillardeau oysters
- Crassostrea ("true oyster" genus)
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| Scallops |
- Atlantic bay
- Great/king
- New Zealand
- Pecten jacobaeus
- Peruvian calico
- Yesso
- Placopecten magellanicus
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| Gastropods | | Abalone |
- White
- Red
- Black
- Green
- Pink
- Blacklip
- Greenlip
- Green ormer
- Paua (group of three species)
- South African abalone
- Chilean
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| Conches | |
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| Limpets |
- Black-foot opihi/Hawaiian
- Turtle/talc
- Yellow-foot opihi
- China
- Common European
- Rayed Mediterranean
- Ribbed Mediterranean
- Rustic
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| Periwinkles |
- Common
- Banded
- Littorina sitkana
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| Whelks |
- Common
- Kellet's
- Kelletia lischkei
- Knobbed
- Lightning
- Channeled
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| Other snails | | Sea |
- Mud-flat
- Korean mud
- Chorus giganteus
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| Land |
- Cornu aspersum
- Helix lucorum
- Helix pomatia
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| Freshwater | |
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| Inkfish | | Cuttlefish | |
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| Octopus |
- Common
- Atlantic white-spotted
- Big blue
- Pacific giant
- Southern red
- Mimic
- Amphioctopus fangsiao
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| Squid |
- New Zealand arrow
- Japanese flying
- Humboldt
- Neon flying
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| Chitons |
- Chiton magnificus
- Acanthopleura echinata
- Acanthopleura granulata
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| Related topics |
- Oyster farming
- Land snail farming
- Gastropod anatomy
- Bivalve anatomy
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Category |
- Pest (organism)#Gastropod molluscs
Biogeography of gastropods
- biogeography of gastropods
Lists of marine molluscs by country
- List of marine molluscs of Angola
- List of marine molluscs of Australia
- List of marine molluscs of Brazil
- List of marine molluscs of Chile
- List of marine molluscs of Croatia
- (List of marine molluscs of Ireland)
- List of marine molluscs of Ireland (Gastropoda)
- List of Nudibranchia of Ireland
- List of marine molluscs of Montenegro
- List of marine molluscs of Mozambique
- List of marine molluscs of New Zealand
- List of marine molluscs of Slovenia
- (List of marine molluscs of South Africa)
- List of marine gastropods of South Africa
- List of marine heterobranch gastropods of South Africa
- List of marine molluscs of Sri Lanka
- List of marine molluscs of Venezuela
Lists of non-marine molluscs by country
Terms
- Glossary of gastropod terms
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