Talk:Gastropoda
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[edit] Classification
I hope the classification is reasonable. I had to cobble it together from the web, not being intimately familiar with gastropod classification. There seems to be three radically different classification schemes out there for the gastropods, and I had to choose one. Hope I got it reasonably right. jaknouse 02:50 Mar 31, 2003 (UTC)
[edit] Could not link to Gastropoda
I was preparing a page on the family Barleeidae, order Neotaenioglossa, when I saw that I could not make a link to Gastropoda.
I know, the classification of Gastropoda is rather confused. But I think a reworking of this page is in order.
I am loath to interfere with your work. There I want to leave it up to you.
Take a look at the website : University of Michigan and you will see that things are looking there quite different from this page at Wikipedia.
There is also another classification going on. I think this may be even the newest classification.
See following website :
The author of these last website can be reached by email on :
mkosnik+gbrdb@alumni.uchicago.edu
Perhaps he can bring a bit of order in this confusion.
JoJan 19:50, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Since I got no response, I have tried to put some order in the taxonomy JoJan 21:03, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Geological history
Dlloyd 09:57, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Some of this text was originaly written and published by me on the Web back in 1998.
Portions of this text are :
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Dlloyd 00:44, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Number of species
What is this sentence trying to say? Are there 60-75k species or over 100k, or what? Horatio 17:21, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
- "The gastropods, or univalves, are the largest and most successful class of mollusks, with 60,000-75,000 species, and second largest class of animals, with over 100,000 species, comprising the snails and slugs as well as a vast number of marine and freshwater species."
- It should say 60-75k (recent) species. There are about 100k known extant species of molluscs as a whole, which makes molluscs the second largest phylum (not class) of animals, in terms of recorded species (Arthropods being the largest). I've corrected the page accordingly M Alan Kazlev 03:53, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
could we have an article on snail slime?
