All Gastropod Genera (Snails and Slugs)

Gastropod Genera (Snails and Slugs) is a Browse By group of the Nature Atlas that gathers genera of gastropods, the mollusks of the class Gastropoda that move on a muscular foot and usually carry a single coiled shell, including sea snails such as Haliotis, the abalone, whose flattened ear-shaped shell has a row of respiratory holes and a lustrous mother-of-pearl interior. An entry belongs here when its own cited article describes a genus of sea snails, land snails or slugs. It excludes the cephalopod mollusks, the nautiluses and the squid-like genera, which have groups of their own. The group lets a reader compare the largest class of mollusks across sea, freshwater and land.