Wikipedia:WikiProject Gastropods/Guidelines

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.

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 the names of characters in Greek mythology. Some other gastropod genus names are identical to genus names that are used for plants or fungi or other organisms. Because of these two possibilities for confusion, always check genus name blue links, in order to make sure that they lead to the articles you expect them to!

In cases where there is more than one organism with the same genus name, 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)
 * do not use Bithynia (mollusc)
 * do not use Bithynia (genus)

Do not use "(gastropod)" after a genus name if the name does not need to be disambiguated.

EXAMPLES OF 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

Pleuroceridae-stub Thiaridae-stub

Hydrobiidae-stub

Heterobranchia clade Heterobranchia-stub

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

clade Stylommatophora-stub + 10 subcategories