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PULMONATA (slugs and snails)

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #subtaxa #photos #macrophotos #microphotos #refs
Order ARCHAEOPULMONATA (hollow-shelled snails) 3        
Family ELLOBIIDAE (hollow-shelled snails) 3 10 30 5 2
Order BASOMMATOPHORA (pond snails) 18        
Family ANCYLIDAE (freshwater limpets) 2 8      
Family LYMNAEIDAE (pond snails) 5 27 5   3
Family PHYSIDAE (bladder snails) 4 24   5 2
Family PLANORBIDAE (ram’s horn or trumpet snails) 7 6 31    
Order STYLOMMATOPHORA (slugs and snails) 36        
Family ARIONIDAE (roundback slugs) 4 39     3
Family CHONDRINIDAE (chrysalis snails) 1   9    
Family CLAUSILIIDAE (door snails) 3 10 8   1
Family COCHLICOPIDAE (agate snails) 2 3 3    
Family ENDODONTIDAE (discus snails) 1 2      
Family ENIDAE (bulins) 1 1 4    
Family HELICIDAE (typical snails) 12 95 43    
Family LIMACIDAE (keelback slugs) 5 21     2
Family ONCHIDIIDAE (a family of marine molluscs) 1 1      
Family PUPILLIDAE (moss snails) 2 2 22    
Family VERTIGINIDAE (whorl and chrysalis snails) 1   5   1
Family VITRINIDAE (a family of glass snails) 2       2
Informal (Land Slugs) (Slugs) 14 60     9

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Adams, L.E., 1896 The collector's manual of British land and freshwater shells
Cameron, R., 2003 Land Snails in the British Isles
Cloudsley-Thompson, J.L. & Sankey, J., 1961 Land Invertebrates, a guide to British worms, molluscs and arthropods, excluding insects
Kerney, M.P. & Cameron, R.A.D., 1979 A Field Guide to the Land Snails of Britain and North-west Europe
Pfegler, V. & Chatfield, J., 1988 A Guide to Snails of Britain and Europe
Pfleger, V., 1998 A Field Guide in Colour to Molluscs

Terrestrial

Gargominy O. & Ripken, T.E.J., 2011 Une collection de référence pour la malacofaune terrestre de France: a reference collection ofor French terrestrial molluscs

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 6 general literature references to PULMONATA (slugs and snails)

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)

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 50 feeding and other relationships of PULMONATA (slugs and snails)

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