The Mollusc Page

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Molluscs include the familiar snails, garden slugs, and beautiful sea slugs (class Gastropoda), the clams, oysters, scallops, and mussels (class Bivalvia), the active octopuses, squid, cuttlefish and Nautilus (class Cephalopoda) as well as some less familiar groups such as the classes Aplacophora (shell-less worm looking things called solenogasters), Caudofoveata (small shell-less deep-sea worm like things), Monoplacophora (living fossils—only 8 or so species), Polyplacophora (chitons) and Scaphopoda (tusk shells). In terms of numbers of species, Mollusca is the second largest phylum of invertebrates (Arthropoda is the largest). Molluscs are one of the most noticeable groups of invertebrates as well—their attractive shells are collected and many species are consumed as food (hungary yet?).

Index

Phylum Mollusca
Class Bivalvia
Class Cephalopoda
Class Gastropoda
Class Scaphopoda

Phylum Mollusca

The Zoological Record keeps a better and more frequently updated list of mollusca links than I ever will!
Molluscan Evolution Listserver
Malacological collection databases and more
EQMal European Quaternary Malacologists
Invertebrate Collection The UCMP invertebrate catalog contains
Shellfish Web Site (National Shellfisheries Association)

Class Bivalvia

Some bivalve FAQs (NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service and Northeast Fisheries Science Center)
Systematics of Fossil Caribbean Bivalves (Neogene Marine Invertebrates of Tropical America)
Everything You Need To Know About Zebra Mussels

Class Cephalopoda

Cephalopod Links

Class Gastropoda

Cone shell and conotoxins
Neogene Marine invertebrates of Tropical america NMITA images and taxonomic information
Sea Slugs (nudibranchs, opisthobranchs and their allies)
Veliger larva opisthobranch veliger research

Class Scaphopoda

Introduction to the Scaphopoda; the tusk shells

Misc.

Tree of Life - Mollusca

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