Paul,
Okay, how about some families. Actually when I started to even think this way I
was just going for the families listed in Eisenberg's book. Later I added
Abbott and Dance's compendium. So although I have some land and some
freshwater, I was only going for the better known seashell families. So you are
soooo right, I have no where near 650 families. In fact, I just went and
counted them. I have Gastropoda-82, Bivalvia-36, Scaphapoda-1,
Polyplacophora-4, Cephalopoda-4, Landshells (counted separate from
Gastropoda)-21, Freshwater-a couple only. So I barely missed 650, I'll catch up
next week.
Tom Eichhorst in New Mexico, USA (650?!!!)
Paul R. Monfils wrote:
> Tom,
> You sure you have a representative of most families? Kay Vaught lists about
> 650 families in A Classification of the Living Mollusca :-) Of course, that
> includes all classes of mollusks, marine, fresh water, and terrestrial.
> Paul M.
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