Wikipedia:WikiProject Gastropods/Categories

Subcategories of Gastropods

Note: Although we already have some categories of gastropods by country: e.g. of Australia and of New Zealand, we would like to strongly discourage people from creating any more categories of gastropods or mollusks by country, especially in the case of marine species, which are usually very widely distributed and which will eventually produced categories that run into the thousands. List articles are a much more helpful way of including this kind of information in the encyclopedia. Categories are not organized by family, only alphabetically, and overall they are a poor way of storing information because they are not very useful to a user and they cannot be worked with and organized at a later date. Instead please start an article List of marine molluscs of This Country or List of non-marine molluscs of This Area. A list article can be extremely simple and stubby to start off with, that is perfectly OK, eventually it will be much fuller and well-organized and easy to use.

So, please do not create more categories by country, and please do not add to pre-existing ones. Whenever it is appropriate, please create a list article instead. Thanks! This is a list of the currently existing categories and subcategories:

Gastropods

Gastropods by year of formal description

Gastropods by classification

Gastropod anatomy

Cave snails

Extinct gastropods

Freshwater snails

Gastropods and humans

Gastropods by location

Marine gastropods

Gastropod taxa

Gastropod stubs

Hidden categories for clean-up

• Category:Gastropod genera without authority reference - add original description authority reference between REF tags (for example from http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/) and then remove {{no-gastropod-genus-ref}}. Abbreviations of journals can be found for example at: http://www.bioscience.org/atlases/jourabbr/list.htm