ross mayhew. wrote:
>
Can anyone summarize these
> developments for all of us? (or correct/refine my numbers, and perhaps
> epound a bit upon the non shell-toting side of the mollusc world as well
> (numerically-speaking,ie!))
> -Ross from the Great White.
I just ran the numbers from my opisthobranch taxon list and came up with
11,240+ names. This includes some duplicates and the generic names are
listed separately AND includes shelled opisthobranchs but does NOT
include more than half of the species names. I would guess it may be a
reasonable estimate for non-shelled names. On the other hand the
standard estimate mentioned is about 5000 nudibranch species.
Steve
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