Outline of gastropods
This outline is provided as an overview of, and organized list of articles relevant to, the subject of gastropods :
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:- Natural resource
- * Organisms
- ** Animals –
- ***Invertebrates
- ****Molluscs
- ** Seafood
Types of gastropods
- marine gastropod
- * sea snail
- * sea slug
- non-marine gastropod
- * freshwater gastropod = all are freshwater snails
- ** freshwater snail
- * terrestrial gastropod = terrestrial mollusc
- ** land snail
- ** land slug
- ** semi-slug
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
- * gastropod shell, conch, conch (instrument)
- ** protoconch
- ** apex (mollusc)
- ** spire (mollusc)
- *** planispiral
- *** sculpture (mollusc)
- **** lira (mollusc)
- **** varix (mollusc)
- ** columella (gastropod)
- ** aperture (mollusc)
- *** lip (gastropod)
- *** anal sulcus
- *** mentum
- *** parietal callus
- *** plait (gastropod)
- *** siphonal canal
- *** siphonal notch
- *** stromboid notch
- ** umbilicus (mollusc)
- *** callus (mollusc)
- ** periostracum
- ** selenizone
- ** clausilium
- ** operculum (gastropod)
- ** epiphragm
- mantle (mollusc) and mantle cavity
- body wall
- * propodium
- * caudal mucous pit
- * nidamental gland
- * Parapodium#Gastropod parapodia
- * Semper's organ
- * suprapedal gland
- * snail slime
- sensory organs of gastropods
- * caryophyllidia
- * Hancock's organ
- * osphradium
- * rhinophore
- nervous system of gastropods
- * euthyneury
- * streptoneury
- * torsion (gastropod)
- digestive system of gastropods
- * proboscis#Gastropods
- * radula
- * odontophore
- * hepatopancreas = digestive gland
- ** diverticulum (mollusc)
- * style (zoology)
- Respiratory system of gastropods
- * ctenidium (mollusc)
- * cerata
- ** cnidosac
- * pneumostome
- * siphon (mollusc)
- circulatory system of gastropods
- excretory system of gastropods
- * pseudofeces
- 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
- List of edible molluscs
- heliciculture
- Pest (organism)#Gastropod molluscs
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 (Gastropoda)
- ** List of Nudibranchia 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 gastropods of South Africa
- ** List of marine heterobranch gastropods of South Africa
- List of marine molluscs of Sri Lanka
- List of marine molluscs of Venezuela