Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca

Gastropoda Cuvier, 1795

Rank: Class
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Caenogastropoda Cox, 1960
Cocculiniformia Haszprunar, 1987
Heterobranchia
Neomphalina
Neritimorpha Golikov & Starobogatov, 1975
Patellogastropoda Lindberg, 1986
Vetigastropoda Salvini-Plawen, 1980

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: buikpotigen; slakken sources: Backeljau, T. (1986). Lijst van de recente mariene mollusken van België [List of the recent marine molluscs of Belgium]. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 106 pp.;Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.

English: gastropods; snails and slugs

English-United States: gastropods sources: Charles Hussey

Swedish: snäckor sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Ukrainian: Черевоногі

Literature

original description	Cuvier, G. 1795. Second Mémoire sur l'organisation et les rapports des animaux à sang blanc, dans lequel on traite de la structure des Mollusques et de leur division en ordre, lu à la société d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris, le 11 prairial an troisième [30 May 1795]. Magazin Encyclopédique, ou Journal des Sciences, des Lettres et des Arts, 1795 [1. année] 2: 433-449.
original description	Duméril, A.M.C. (1805). Zoologie analytique, ou méthode naturelle de classification des animaux, rendue plus facile à l'aide de tableaux synoptiques. Paris, Allais. pp. i-xxxiii + 1-344.
basis of record	Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (2005) Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia 47(1-2): 1-397.
additional source	Ponder W.F. & Lindberg D.R. 1997. Towards a phylogeny of gastropod molluscs: an analysis using morphological characters. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 119: 83-265.
additional source	An outline for the classification of Phylum Mollusca in taxonomic databases [report elaborated by WoRMS editors for internal use, june 2010]

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Citation

Gofas, S. (2014). Gastropoda. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:101