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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Mingna and others,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Our gastropods are organized into rough groups of “freshwater”, “Land”, and “Marine”, with organization for each group as shown below. While it’s a gray area for some groups (like Physidae, which might be found on land near freshwater),
this has worked well for ecologists here at INHS as well as visitors. I’m interested to see what other folks do too, so thanks for asking this question! We rely on the taxon trees at
<a href="https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=browser">molluscabase</a> and/or
<a href="https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=101">WoRMS</a> to organize beyond the main groupings
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Freshwater<o:p></o:p></li><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="circle">
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Taxon tree groups down to family<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">
Genus & species, alphabetically<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">
By state or region (Illinois is first b/c that is the bulk of our material, then we go ABC by state)<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">
By watershed <br>
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Terrestrial<o:p></o:p></li><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="circle">
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Taxon tree groups down to family<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">
Genus & species, alphabetically<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">
By state or region (Illinois is first b/c that is the bulk of our material, then we go ABC by state)<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">
By county <o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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Marine<o:p></o:p></li><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="circle">
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Taxon tree groups down to family<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">
Genus & species, alphabetically<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">
By location (primarily by ocean/country alphabetically). <o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Alison<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal">Alison Stodola (she/her/hers), Aquatic Biologist<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal">Curator of Malacology | Illinois Natural History Survey
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal">Prairie Research Institute | University of Illinois<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal">1816 S. Oak Street | Champaign, IL 61820<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><a href="mailto:alprice@illinois.edu"><span style="color:#0563C1">alprice@illinois.edu</span></a> | 217-300-0969 (office)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><b>From:</b> Nhcoll-l <nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Zhuang, Mingna<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 2, 2023 4:16 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Nhcoll-l] Gastropod organization in collections<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello all,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We are moving our malacology collection to a different location in the building and that gives us the opportunity to reorganize the collections in a way that will make sense to us and update portions (hopefully…almost all) of its taxonomy.
Would anyone be able to share how they are physically organizing their snail collections? Are you using Order, Family, Genus etc. in alphabetical order and then by geography? Our previous malacology curator had used Basommatophora, but it is my understanding
that it’s an informal group currently. It is also not totally clear how he organized the collections (whether phylogenetically or taxonomically), so it has always been a little troublesome trying to figure out how to find things for researchers. If you are
organizing taxonomically, are you using Infraclass or the next assigned rank in the higher classification if there is no order assigned to a family?
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<p class="MsoNormal">We have been short on gastropod researchers for a few decades now, so we’re not too sure what they prefer.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for any advice!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal">Vicky (Mingna) Zhuang PhD.<br>
Biodiversity Collections Manager<br>
UTEP Biodiversity Collections<br>
B209 Biology Building<br>
University of Texas at El Paso<br>
500 W University Avenue<br>
El Paso, TX 79968<br>
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