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  Superphylum Lophotrochozoa

Phylum Mollusca

    Class Bivalvia -- Wisconsin!
    Class Gastropoda -- Wisconsin!
    Class Aplacophora
    Class Cephalopoda
    Class Monoplacophora
    Class Polyplacophora
    Class Scaphopoda

Taxon Information

The Phylum Mollusca has been reported (or is assumed) to occur in fresh waters. This taxon has been reported from Wisconsin.

(These statements were generated automatically from the WInvertebrates database.)

Literature Records

• Mollusca, "117,358 species" (Zhang, 2011).
• Mollusca, [93,195 described species] (Brusca & Brusca, 2003).
• Mollusca, (Clench, 1959).

Bibliography

• Zhang, Z.-Q. 2011. Animal biodiversity: An introduction to higher-level classification and taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 7-12. [Available online]
• Brusca, R.C. & G.J. Brusca. 2003. Invertebrates, 2nd edition. Sinauer Associates, Inc., Sunderland, Massachusetts. 936 pp.
• Clench, W.J. 1959. Mollusca. [in] W.T. Edmondson (ed.). Ward & Whipple Fresh-Water Biology, 2nd edition: 1117-1160.

Web Pages

• Animal Diversity Web
• Freshwater Animal Diversity Assessment
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System
• Tree of Life
• WikiSpecies
• Wikipedia
• World Register of Marine Species