[Nhcoll-l] Gastropod organization in collections

[Stodola, Alison Price]

Hi Mingna and others,
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 molluscabase<https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=browser> and/or WoRMS<https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=101> to organize beyond the main groupings

  *   Freshwater
     *   Taxon tree groups down to family
     *   Genus & species, alphabetically
     *   By state or region (Illinois is first b/c that is the bulk of our material, then we go ABC by state)
     *   By watershed

  *   Terrestrial
     *   Taxon tree groups down to family
     *   Genus & species, alphabetically
     *   By state or region (Illinois is first b/c that is the bulk of our material, then we go ABC by state)
     *   By county
  *   Marine
     *   Taxon tree groups down to family
     *   Genus & species, alphabetically
     *   By location (primarily by ocean/country alphabetically).
Alison
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Alison Stodola (she/her/hers), Aquatic Biologist
Curator of Malacology | Illinois Natural History Survey
Prairie Research Institute | University of Illinois
1816 S. Oak Street | Champaign, IL 61820
alprice at illinois.edu<mailto:alprice at illinois.edu> | 217-300-0969 (office)



From: Nhcoll-l <nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu> On Behalf Of Zhuang, Mingna
Sent: Wednesday, August 2, 2023 4:16 PM
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Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Gastropod organization in collections

Hello all,

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?

We have been short on gastropod researchers for a few decades now, so we're not too sure what they prefer.

Thanks for any advice!

Vicky (Mingna) Zhuang PhD.
Biodiversity Collections Manager
UTEP Biodiversity Collections
B209 Biology Building
University of Texas at El Paso
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El Paso, TX 79968
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