BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

PULMONATA (slugs and snails)

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #subtaxa #photos #macrophotos #microphotos #refs #webs
Order ARCHAEOPULMONATA (an order of snails) 3          
Family ELLOBIIDAE (hollow-shelled snails) 3   5   2  
Order BASOMMATOPHORA 16          
Family ANCYLIDAE (river limpets) 1 2        
Family LYMNAEIDAE (pond snails) 5 27 5   3 1
Family PHYSIDAE (bladder snails) 4 24   5 2  
Family PLANORBIDAE (ram’s horn or trumpet snails) 6 6 17      
Order STYLOMMATOPHORA 36          
Family ARIONIDAE (roundback slugs) 4 39     2  
Family CLAUSILIIDAE (door snails) 3 10 8      
Family COCHLICOPIDAE (agate snails) 2 3 3      
Family ENDODONTIDAE (discus snails) 1 1 1      
Family ENIDAE (bulins) 1 1 4      
Family HELICIDAE (typical snails) 12 84 44     4
Family LIMACIDAE (keelback slugs) 6 14 4   1 2
Family ONCHIDIIDAE 1 1        
Family PUPILLIDAE 2 2 11      
Family SUCCINEIDAE (amber snails)           1
Family VERTIGINIDAE (whorl and chrysalis snails) 1   5      
Family VITRINIDAE (a family of glass snails) 2       2  

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Cameron, R., 2003 Land Snails in the British Isles
Cameron, R.A.D., Jackson, N. & Eversham, B., 1983 A Field Key to the Slugs of the British Isles
Pfegler, V. & Chatfield, J., 1988 A Guide to Snails of Britain and Europe
Pfleger, V., 1998 A Field Guide in Colour to Molluscs

PULMONATA may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
ANIMALIA
(animals)
MOLLUSCA
(slugs, snails, bivalves, octopus, sea slugs)
GASTROPODA
(slugs and snails)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

PULMONATA is associated with:

slime Dicranum flagellare - a moss (Dicranales: Dicranaceae) slime spreads or disperses deciduous branch Foreign Porley, R. & Hodgetts, N., 2005 [Slugs. p72]

Associated with PULMONATA:

(decomposing) decomposing dead is eaten by larva Sarcophaga argyrostoma - a flesh fly (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) van Emden, F.I., 1954
dead is eaten by larva Eurychaeta palpalis - a blue bottle or green bottle (Diptera: Calliphoridae) Restricted van Emden, F.I., 1954
is endoparasitised by larva Eggisops pecchiolii - a blue bottle or green bottle (Diptera: Calliphoridae) Restricted van Emden, F.I., 1954
is endoparasitised by larva Sarcophaga jacobsoni - a flesh fly (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) Minor van Emden, F.I., 1954
is endoparasitoid host of larva Melinda (Diptera: Calliphoridae) Restricted van Emden, F.I., 1954
mantle cavity mantle cavity may house ovum Melinda (Diptera: Calliphoridae) Restricted van Emden, F.I., 1954

Pulmonata may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

ANIMALIA
(animals)
MOLLUSCA
(slugs, snails, bivalves, octopus, sea slugs)
GASTROPODA
(slugs and snails)

References

Porley, R. & Hodgetts, N., 2005 Mosses and Liverworts
van Emden, F.I., 1954 Diptera: Cyclorrhapha Calyptrata (I) Sect (a) Tachinidae and Calliphoridae