BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)
MOLLUSCA (slugs, snails, bivalves, octopus, sea slugs)
Subtaxa
| Rank | Taxon |  |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Class | BIVALVIA (bivalves) | 54 | 472 | 77 | 15 | 15 | |
| Class | CEPHALOPODA (octopuses, cuttlefishes and squids) | 2 | |||||
| Genus | Loligo (squids) | 9 | |||||
| Genus | Sepia (cuttlefishes) | 2 | 1 | ||||
| Class | GASTROPODA (slugs and snails) | 94 | 460 | 142 | 5 | 40 | 21 |
| Class | POLYPLACOPHORA (chitons, coat-of-mail shells) | 2 | 5 | 24 | 2 | ||
| Class | SCAPHOPODA (tusk shells) | 1 | 4 | 1 |
Suggested Literature
Identification Works
| Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland | Publisher |
| Beedham, G.E., 1972 | Identification of the British Mollusca |
| Germain, L., 1930 | Mollusques Terrestres et Fluviatiles (2 vols) |
| Gibson, R., Hextall, B. & Rogers, A., 2001 (marine forms) | Photographic Guide to the Sea & Shore Life of Britain & North-west Europe |
| Jones, A.M. & Baxtyer, J.M., 1987 | Molluscs: Caudofoveata, Solenogastres, Polyplacophora and Scaphopoda |
| Pfleger, V., 1998 (Terrestrial and freshwater species) | A Field Guide in Colour to Molluscs |
| Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland: http://www.seaslug.org.uk/marinelife/ (Marine species) | Web Site/Page |
General Works
| Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland: http://www.conchsoc.org | Web Site/Page |
| Conchology-UK: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/conchology-uk/join | E-forum |
| Alexander, K.N.A., 2002 | The Invertebrates of Living and Decaying Timber in Britain and Ireland - a Provisional Annotated Checklist |
| Journal of Conchology | Journal |
| Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London | Journal |
| Step, E., 1945 | Shell Life - an introduction to the British Mollusca |
MOLLUSCA may also be covered by literature listed under:
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BIOTA (living things) |
Eukaryota (eukaryotes) |
ANIMALIA (animals) |
Feeding and other inter-species relationships
Associated with MOLLUSCA:
| is parasitised by larva | Sarcophaga melanura - a flesh fly (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) | 
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van Emden, F.I., 1954 |
Mollusca may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level
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ANIMALIA (animals) |
References
| van Emden, F.I., 1954 | Diptera: Cyclorrhapha Calyptrata (I) Sect (a) Tachinidae and Calliphoridae |
