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Article sections
There are no strict rules as yet, so follow the guidelines that are usually used in other gastropod articles: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Gastropods/Archive 3. Also see WikiProject Animals/Article template and WikiProject_Birds.

Names and titles
There are some obvious conventions, according to the Naming conventions (fauna). See also for example WikiProject_Birds.

Category:WikiProject Gastropods

Homonyms in titles
A homonym is a word that has the same spelling and same pronunciation as another word that has a totally different meaning. This is a situation that is fairly commonly encountered, especially among the thousands of words that are used as genus names of snails and slugs. Some genus names are identical to words that have a very different meaning, such as names of characters in Greek mythology.

Some other gastropod genus names are identical to a genus names that are used for plants or fungi or other organisms. Thus it is always worth checking by seeing what a snail genus name links to once it appears as a blue link; it may turn out to link to something completely unrelated to snails!

In those cases, here is what we do: we disambiguate the gastropod name in the title of the snail or slug article by using the word (gastropod) after the name. Do not use (genus) or (mollusc) as a way to disambiguate the name.

Examples:
 * Correct: Bithynia (gastropod)
 * Incorrect: Williamia (mollusc)
 * Incorrect: Williamia (genus)

Do not use (gastropod) after a genus name if no article exists about a homonym. In that case the genus name does not need to be disambiguated

HOMONYMS (alphabetically): homonym (biology), http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_valid_homonyms


 * † Agnesia (gastropod) de Koninck, 1883 (Porcelliidae) - Agnesia (plant)
 * Buchanania (gastropod) Lesson, 1831 (Fissurellidae) - Buchanania (plant)
 * Clathrus (gastropod) VERIFY - Clathrus (fungi)
 * Clypeola (gastropod) Gray, 1868 (Calyptraeidae) - Clypeola (plant)
 * Clypeolum (gastropod) Récluz, 1842 (Neritidae) - Clypeolum (fungi)
 * Crosslandia (gastropod) Eliot, 1902 (Scyllaeidae) - Crosslandia (plant)
 * Cyclophorus (gastropod) - Cyclophorus (plant) a fern
 * Duplicaria (gastropod) Dall, 1908 (Terebridae) - Duplicaria (fungi)
 * Dupontia (gastropod) Godwin-Austen, 1908 (Helixarionidae) - Dupontia (plant)


 * ? Galba (gastropod) - Galba (butterfly)


 * clade Hygrophila (Gastropoda) - Hygrophila (plant)


 * Murchisonia (gastropod) from family Murchisoniidae - Murchisonia (plant)


 * Nodonema (gastropod) from family Portlockiellidae - Nodonema (plant)


 * Polybranchia (gastropod) - Polybranchia (polychaete)


 * Pyramidula (gastropod) - Pyramidula (Bryophyta)
 * Williamia (gastropod) - Williamia (plant) not homonym?


 * Truncatella (gastropod)
 * Tritoniopsis (gastropod) - Tritoniopsis (plant)

Stub types
Currently, Feb 2010, we have too many stub types. We wish to keep the first two types and the family stub types, but we will eliminate the stubs for the intermediate higher taxa (such as Sorbeoconcha, Heterobranchia, etc) because those taxa are often changed as new taxonomies are published.

Category:Gastropod stubs Gastropod-stub

Paleo-gastropod-stub

2005 taxonomy:

Patellogastropoda

Vetigastropoda

Cocculiniformia

Neritimorpha

Caenogastropoda

Ampullariidae-stub (adds to Gastropod stubs category) Cyclophoridae-stub (GET IMAGE, adds to Gastropod stubs category) Diplommatinidae-stub Viviparidae-stub (adds to Gastropod stubs category) Assimineidae-stub Clavatulidae-stub Conidae-stub Drilliidae-stub Terebridae-stub Turridae-stub

Sorbeoconcha-stub + families: Pleuroceridae-stub Thiaridae-stub

family Hydrobiidae-stub

Heterobranchia clade Heterobranchia-stub

informal group Pulmonata-stub informal group Basommatophora-stub +  Planorbidae-stub Onchidiidae-stub

clade Stylommatophora-stub + 10 subcategories