[Taxacom] Are slugs subgroup(s) of snails

[Frederick W Schueler]

Stephen Thorpe wrote:
> Well, the best database of them all (Google) has lots of hits for 
> semislugs (so we have divergent opinion yet again! :)

* it's only Creationists who are supposed to be made queasy by the 
existence of intermediate states in an evolutionary process. There are 
also semi-limpets...

fred.
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> 
> http://www.google.co.nz/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=semislug&meta=&aq=f&oq=
> 
> just forget about the few hits to do with the *S*outh-*E*ast *Mi*chigan 
> *S*un *L*ocal *U*ser *G*roup!
> 
> Stephen
> 
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> Sent: Friday, 4 September 2009 2:15 p.m.
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> Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Are slugs subgroup(s) of snails
> 
> Stephen Thorpe wrote:
>  > And what about semislugs?! Slugs with visible shells that they can't 
> withdraw into completely! Come on, the whole point with common names is 
> that they are not perfectly precise in meaning - that is why we need 
> scientific names. There is no answer to the question: is a slug also a 
> snail? Actually, this quite nicely illustrates the tendency of certain 
> personality types, common on the list, to try to find perfect  precision 
> where none exists, either in the Code, or in meaning of 'slug'...
> 
> * a snail is a Gastropod with a coiled shell, a limpet is a Gastropod
> with a non-coiled, umbrella-like shell, and slug is a Gastropod without
> enough shell to retreat into. Both of the latter are polyphyletic
> life-style choices, and the former is hugely paraphyletic, so none of
> them need the name of an author appended.
> 
> The above was written without consulting wiki-anything, or the EoL.
> 
> fred.
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          Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad
       RR#2 Bishops Mills, Ontario, Canada K0G 1T0
    on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44* 52'N 75* 42'W
      (613)258-3107 <bckcdb at istar.ca> http://pinicola.ca
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If we'd been meant to refer to species by made-up vernacular names,
                God wouldn't have created Linnaeus!
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