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On the Web
- Class Gastropoda - Overview of gastropod classification from the Animal Diversity Web.
- Gastropoda - Food writing and commentary, thoughts on cooking, cuisine and restaurants from New York food essayist, cook, recipe developer, magazine food writer and cookbook author Regina Schrambling.
- Order Archaeogastropoda - Images and brief description. Species accounts for Haliotis kamtschatkana (Northern Abalone) and H. rufescens (Red Abalone).
- Class Gastropoda - A brief yet informative description on the characteristics of gastropods. Includes links to specific examples of gastropods.
- ABMAP: The Abalone Mapping Project - Documents and illustrates the current geographic distribution of abalone (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda: Haliotidae: Haliotis) world-wide.
- Gastropoda.de - Es werden Informationen zu Haltung, Ernährung und Klassifizierung von Süßwasserschnecken geboten sowie Literaturhinweise.
- Gastropoda of Montana - Overview of biology and taxonomy; species list for Montana.
- A List of the Worldwide Food Habits of Nudibranchs - By Gary R. McDonald and James W. Nybakken. The list is an attempt to compile all of the published food data for nudibranchs. Included are all of the articles that the authores were able to obtain prior to June 1996.
- Scottish Nudibranchs - Deals almost exclusively with this part of the world.
- Nudibranch Roundup - Photographs and introduction by Phillip Slosberg.
Wikipedia Articles
- Gastropoda - The gastropods, also previously known as gasteropods, or univalves, and more commonly known as snails and slugs, are the largest and most successful class of mollusks, with 60,000-75,000 known living species. This class of animals is second only to insects in its size and diversity.
- Cochlostomatidae - Family of terrestrial snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Prosobranchia)which include two genera (Cochlostoma Jan 1830 and Toffolettia Giusti, 1971), living in limestone mountains of southern Europe and north Africa).
- Wilhelm August Wenz - Wilhelm August Wenz (1886 – 1945) was a German malacologist, born in Frankfurt am Main. He is the author of the 7-part Gastropoda section of Handbuch der Paläozoologie (1938-1944), a very important review that described all known fossil genera.
- Heterobranchia - Heterobranchia (different-gilled snails) is a superorder of mollusks in the class gastropoda.
- Orthogastropoda - In their work, which has become a standard reference in the field, Ponder and Lindberg (1997) showed that the Orthogastropoda is one of two subclasses of the Gastropoda the class of molluscs, the other subclass being the Eogastropoda.