Gastropods
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of approximately 100,400 gastropods. These date from 1870 to the present.
This collection contains approximately 28,000 lots of dried shells, made up of about 100,000 individual shells. There are also 400 specimens in spirit, including deep-sea specimens from the 1970s, terrestrial snails and slugs from Scotland and abroad, and 100 sea slugs or nudibranchs mainly collected from around Scotland. The geographic range of the collection covers all oceans and continents and includes specimens from deep seas to mountaintops.
Important collections include those of Dr Carl Westerlund (1831-1908), Robert P. Scase (1914-1993), S. Peter Dance (1932-present), and the Baxter collection which was donated in 2004.
There are collectors’ diaries, catalogues, journal articles and photographs of significant specimens within the collection, as well as several Gastropod models, including Blaschka glass specimens from the Mason collection (1909).
About gastropods
Gastropods are the largest class of molluscs, with more than 75,000 species found all around the world. The species with shells are snails, and the species without are slugs. - Broader term
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