Links
Collections and museums with important holdings of Orthalicoidea
Academy of Natural Sciences (http://data.acnatsci.org/biodiversity_databases/snails.php)
This is the museum where Pilsbry was curator and many of his types are kept. The collection is searchable through a database.
British Museum (Natural History) (http://www.nhm.ac.uk/)
One of the most important collections for this group, with many type material dating from the 19th century. The types are mentioned in my publications (1978, 1979).
Field Museum of Natural History (http://emuweb.fieldmuseum.org/iz/mollusks.php)
In this collection the material studied by e.g. Haas and Solem is being kept; it is an important source of Neotropical "Bulimulidae".
Florida Museum of Natural History (http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/malacology/)
This museum has an extensive collection (about 15.000 lots) of "Bulimulidae", which is searchable through a database.
Fundación Miguel Lillo (http://lillo.org.ar/index.php)
The collection made by Weyrauch in Peru and Argentina is in this museum. It is one of the centers of present-day research on terrestrial Neotropical molluscs.
Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universität (http://www.museum.hu-berlin.de/index_english.html)
This museum is an important source of old type material of bulimulids, which have been published by Köhler (2007).
Museum of Comparative Zoology (http://collections.oeb.harvard.edu/Mollusks/MolluskSearch.htm)
The MCZ has a smaller collection (about 700 lots) of "Bulimulidae", which is also searchable through a database.
Museum National d'Histoire naturelle (http://www.mnhn.fr/)
Home of important collection with type material of different 19th century authors. Material has been studied and several types were designated (see Breure, 1975).
Museu de Zoología, Universidade de São Paulo (http://www.usp.br/mz/collab/malaco.html)
Here may be found probably the largest collection of land and freshwater mollusks from South America. The curator, Luis Simone, has published an important book on Brazilian non-marine mollusks.
Naturalis (http://www.naturalis.nl/)
The National Museum of Natural History of the Netherlands. Naturalis is the current name of RMNH - Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, where all material collected by me is kept.
Senckenberg Naturmuseum (http://www.senckenberg.de/root/index.php?page_id=296)
The collection houses an important collection of bulimulids. The many types have been described so far by Zilch (1971) and Neubert & Janssen (2004).
Literature and journals
Bibliografia de moluscos continentales (http://darnis.inbio.ac.cr/malacologia/)
Data base maintained by the National Biodiversity Institute of Costa Rica. Contains references to literature on Neotropical land snails, but is necessarily incomplete.
Land and freshwater molluscs of Brazil (http://www.usp.br/mz/collab/malaco.html)
Published by the curator of the MZSP, Luis Simone, this is the most authoritative and practical book on non-marine Neotropical mollusks since many years, covering not only Brazil but also adjacent areas. My review of it can be found here.
Cuba, the landshells paradise (http://www.gretaeditores.com/bookdetails3.htm)
A book by Adrián González Guillén on the terrestrial malacofauna of this island, covering various aspects and with many beautiful photographs in full colour. A book by a real snail lover! For a review see here.
Tentacle (http://www.hawaii.edu/cowielab/Tentacle.htm)
Newsletter of the IUCN Mollusc Specialist Group, usually published once a year, but with interesting papers. Past numbers available on the site.
Malacology: general
Man and Mollusc (http://www.manandmollusc.net/)
One of the most extensive link sites, covering a wide variety of aspects on malacology.
The Trail of the Snail (http://www.arnobrosi.com/snail.html)
A general site on (near everything on) snails.
Tree of Life (http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Mollusca&contgroup=Bilateria)
A site about the diversity of Mollusca, their evolutionary biology and their characteristics.
Organisations
Dutch Malacological Society (NMV) (http://www.spirula.nl/)
A very active Society on all aspects of malacology, with a member periodical and two scientific journals (Basteria and Vita Malacologica). As a past President you can only expect me to be enthousiastic about it.
Unitas Malacologica (http://www.ucd.ie/zoology/unitas/)
The society for worldwide malacologists and malacology. It organizes every three years a congress where malacologists from all over the world are meeting. The next congress will be in 2009 in Thailand.
Software
DIVA-GIS (http://www.diva-gis.org/)
An open source programme enabling mapping distributions, including ecological niche modeling. There is also a facility to link climatic data and explore the effect on distributions of a changed climate. Maps can be customized and saved as graphic files.
Maxent (http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~schapire/maxent/)
Software based on the maximum-entropy approach for species habitat modeling. This software takes as input a set of layers or environmental variables (such as elevation, precipitation, etc.), as well as a set of georeferenced occurrence locations, and produces a model of the range of the given species.
BEAST (http://tree.bio.ed.ac.uk/software/ for the complete suite)
BEAST is a cross-platform program for Bayesian MCMC analysis of molecular sequences. It is entirely orientated towards rooted, time-measured phylogenies inferred using strict or relaxed molecular clock models. It can be used as a method of reconstructing phylogenies but is also a framework for testing evolutionary hypotheses without conditioning on a single tree topology.
Systematics and distribution
Liguus Discussion Board (http://p103.ezboard.com/bliguusdiscussionboard)
The name tells it all. May help to get an identifation for your Liguus specimen collected in Florida or Cuba.