Outline of gastropods
This outline is provided as an overview of, and organized list of articles relevant to, the subject of gastropods (snails and slugs):
Gastropod – any member of the class Gastropoda, which includes slugs and snails.
What type of things are gastropods?
Gastropods can be considered to be, or viewed as, the following:
Types of gastropods
- marine gastropod
- non-marine gastropod
- freshwater gastropod = all are freshwater snails (with very few exceptions)
- terrestrial gastropod = terrestrial mollusc
Taxonomy
- Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Ponder & Lindberg, 1997)
- Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005)
- Changes in the taxonomy of gastropods since 2005
- List of gastropods described in the 2000s
- List of gastropods described in 2010
- List of gastropods described in 2011
- List of gastropods described in 2012 - 2012 in molluscan paleontology#Newly named gastropods
- List of gastropods described in 2013 - 2013 in paleomalacology#Gastropods
- List of gastropods described in 2014 - 2014 in molluscan paleontology#Newly named gastropods
- List of gastropods described in 2015 - 2015 in molluscan paleontology#Gastropods
- List of gastropods described in 2016 - 2016 in molluscan paleontology#Gastropods
- List of gastropods described in 2017 - 2017 in paleomalacology#Gastropods
Biology of gastropods
Gastropod anatomy
- mollusc shell, seashell
- mantle (mollusc) and mantle cavity
- body wall
- sensory organs of gastropods
- nervous system of gastropods
- digestive system of gastropods
- proboscis#Gastropods
- radula
- odontophore
- hepatopancreas = digestive gland
- style (zoology)
- Respiratory system of gastropods
- circulatory system of gastropods
- excretory system of gastropods
- reproductive system of gastropods
- apophallation
- Love dart
- number of other genital structures: reproductive system of gastropods#Genital structures
Life cycle
Gastropods according to conservation status
- List of recently extinct molluscs#Gastropods
- List of extinct in the wild animals#Molluscs
- List of critically endangered molluscs#Gastropods
- List of endangered molluscs#Gastropods
- List of vulnerable molluscs#Gastropods
- List of near threatened molluscs#Gastropods
- List of least concern molluscs#Gastropods
- List of data deficient molluscs#Gastropods
Gastropods as a resource
Commercial mollusks | ||
|---|---|---|
| Marine gastropods | ||
| Land and freshwater gastropods | ||
| Free-swimming marine bivalves | ||
| Infaunal bivalves | ||
| Sessile bivalves | ||
| Freshwater bivalves | ||
| Cephalopods | ||
| Techniques | ||
Biogeography of gastropods
Lists of marine molluscs by country
- List of marine molluscs of Angola
- List of marine molluscs of Australia
- List of marine molluscs of Brazil
- List of marine molluscs of Chile
- List of marine molluscs of Croatia
- (List of marine molluscs of Ireland)
- List of marine molluscs of Montenegro
- List of marine molluscs of Mozambique
- List of marine molluscs of New Zealand
- List of marine molluscs of Slovenia
- (List of marine molluscs of South Africa)
- List of marine molluscs of Sri Lanka
- List of marine molluscs of Venezuela