This list of gastropods described in the 2000s is a list of new species (and other new taxa) of gastropod mollusks (i.e. snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and land) that were described for the first time in the scientific literature during the time span from the year 2000 to the year 2009.
The number of newly described gastropod is enormous. For example, in A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca (this includes all classes of molluscs, not only gastropods) there are 718 new records from this time span, which total unfortunately includes a number of synonyms. [1]
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According to the World Register of Marine Species, 395 new marine gastropod taxa were introduced by the scientific and amateur communities worldwide in the year 2000, including new species, genera, and higher taxa. [2]
from Visaya 1(1):
from Visaya 1(2):
from American Malacological Bulletin:
from Journal of Molluscan Studies:
from Novapex:
from Zootaxa :
from Gloria Maris:
from The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology :
from Zoosystema
from Molluscan Research
from Journal of Conchology :
from Journal of Molluscan Studies
from Journal of Natural History:
from Zootaxa:
from Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society:
from The Beagle:
from Bulletins of American Paleontology :
from Journal of Conchology :
Previously discovered but undescribed gastropod taxa include:
Discovered during this time period but still undescribed (as of 2009) gastropod taxa include:
Pyramidellidae, common name the pyram family, or pyramid shells, is a voluminous taxonomic family of mostly small and minute ectoparasitic sea snails, marine heterobranch gastropod molluscs. The great majority of species of pyrams are micromolluscs.
Tiberia is a genus of minute parasitic sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies. Tiberia is the only genus in the tribe Tiberiini.
Chrysallida is a speciose genus of minute sea snails, pyramidellid gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Pyramidellidae within the tribe Chrysallidini.
Cerionidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Urocoptoidea.
Parthenina is a genus of very small sea snails, pyramidellid gastropod mollusks or micromollusks.
This overview lists proposed changes in the taxonomy of gastropods at the family level and above since 2005, when the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) was published. In other words, these are recent updates in the way various groups of snails and slugs are classified.
Adolph Cornelis 'Dolf' van Bruggen was a Dutch malacologist, entomologist, and botanist. His interest in the tropics and tropical Africa dominated his broad scientific interest for more than five decades. He was an expert especially in the land snail families Streptaxidae, Achatinidae and Maizaniidae. As of 2008, he had authored some 655 scientific publications.
Inchoatia is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails.
Eulimella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.
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