Great Websites for Mollusc Information

Societies, list of workers, journals etc

• Malacological Society of Australasia (Information on studies in Australasia)
• Mollusca (an extensive list of mollusc links)
• Internet Resources for Conchologists (..all you want to know about molluscs and malacologists worldwide)
• Information for the malacological community (MOLLIA, and the international mollusc list server)
• Systematic Research Collections: Mollusca (a global listing of collections)
• The Malacological Society of London (News about the society and the Journal of Molluscan Studies)
• Hawaiian Malacological Society (Society news and online Hawaiian Shell News)
• The Association of Polish Malacologists (under construction..a changing gallery of pictures)
• BIOSIS List of mollusc sites (A list of major taxonomic sites)
• Conchology - Guido T. Poppe (Information for shell collectors, shell gallery, extensive malacological links)

General molluscs

• Shellfisheries information (Nat. Shellfisheries Assoc. (USA) - Farming, fishing etc worldwide links).
• Farming The Sydney Rock Oyster (An introduction to its biology and farming)
• Glossary of Molluscan Terminology (Words you won't find in the dictionary!)
• Hawaiian Malacology Databases (Bishop Museum ..for land and freshwater species)
• Veliger Larva Home Page (A developing page on mollusc larvae)
• A Mac Program to generate shell shapes (Download and create new species!)

Opisthobranchs

• Aplysia Hometank (for all information on Aplysia's role in neurobiology)
• Mollusca Opisthobranchia (Steve Long's Opisthobranch Newsletter, Bibliographies etc)
• Nudibranchs of the British Isles (Bernard Picton's EXCELLENT online Guide to British Nudibranchs)
• The Slug Site (Images and Information from North America & tropical Pacific)
• The Okinawa Slug Site (Bob Bolland's nudibranchs from Okinawa)
• Opisthobranchs of the World (A fairly exhaustive alphabetical list of links to opisthobranch photographs on the web)
• Mediterranean Slug Site (A collection of photographs of Mediterranean opisthobranchs. There are also collections of photos from the Red Sea and the Maldives and an "Opisthobranchs of the World" page of links to pictures. )

Land and freshwater molluscs

• Illustrated Index of Freshwater Mussel (unionid) genera (Kevin Cummings' photographic gallery of the freshwater mussel genera of the world)
• Management of Pest Land Snails & Slugs (Pest Management Guide from the University of California)
• Freshwater Snails of Florida (An illustrated guide to the diverse freswater snails of Florida)
• Molluscan Pictures (A gallery of mainly land and freshwater snails from Singapore and Malaysia)
• Illinois Natural History Survey - Molluscs (A good site to find information on the diverse freshwater mollusc fauna of the USA)

Cephalopods (octopus, squids etc)

• Ocean Planet: In Search of Giant Squid (Smithsonian electronic exhibition)
• The Cephalopod Page (A comprehensive guide to information, pictures and links on cephalopods)

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