Talk:Mating of gastropods

Note about this article
This article was created as a draft AfC entitled "Mating in slugs". Although it contained a lot of useful information, the draft was only about land slugs, a very polyphyletic group. It was decided at the Gastropods Project to accept the article as a start towards a much longer and more complex article about "Mating of gastropods". The article as it currently stands needs a great deal of work. Today I tried to change the lede in order to suggest that wider context, but I can't spend extra time right now that the article needs to make it more complete as a survey of mating in all gastropod groups. I hope other editors will contribute to this important overview article. Invertzoo (talk) 13:24, 29 May 2014 (UTC)

A useful reference
This Scholarpedia article by Ronald Chase of McGu=ill Uuniversity will be useful I think:

http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Gastropod_reproductive_behavior

Invertzoo (talk) 14:16, 29 May 2014 (UTC)

Info about mating in snails?
As I mentioned before, this article was first created as an AfC about mating in slugs, land slugs. The person who created it did not realize that land slugs are a highly polyphyletic group, and also did not realize that most land slugs are more closely related to land snails within the same family than they are to land slugs in different families.

Thus the article came into existence with a rather serious inherent problem, but we decided it was best to accept the article, move the title to a more all-inclusive one, and hope that over time the article could gradually be greatly expanded to include mating strategies in the two major divisions of land snails, in the two major divisions of freshwater snails, in all the various lineages of sea snails and in all the various different lineages of sea slugs. That way it would really become an article about mating in gastropods.

So far not much has been added. I would encourage anyone who reads this to try to add something as best as they can even though it can be hard work attempting to expand a highly slanted overview article. Invertzoo (talk) 18:37, 24 January 2015 (UTC)