Talk:Pteropoda

I added about climate change's effect on pteropoda. Cassology (talk) 10:43, 8 December 2015 (UTC)Cassady Ross

In the second sentence under "Taxonomy" is the phrase "... the heteropoda taxa (Carinaria and Firola)." The link to "heteropoda" goes to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteropoda, which is a terrestrial spider genus. However, "heteropoda" is a widely used term for a group of marine gastropods (see for example Jennings et al 2010: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0967064510002699). Might someone with more taxonomic expertise than I have straighten out the problem? Thanks! Dragonfly360 (talk) 01:13, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

Distribution

Can I get someone to help clean up the reference? It would also be nice if someone got the image of the distribution map from the link below. I will be offline for a long while, which is why I cannot correct most of this on my own time.

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-4-167-2012

Thanks guys! PestlePestilent (talk) 04:38, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

Written for scientists, not learners

I came to this page knowing nothing of Pteropods and wishing to learn. I was immediately baffled and put-off by the second sentence, which requires foreknowledge of the subject to understand, it being loaded with arcane non-linked words such as "pelagic", "paraphyletic", "cephalopods" and "monophyletic". Unless the reader already has a deep knowledge of this subject, this paragraph reads like a poor imitation of a Lewis Carroll poem. The second paragraph threw "clades" and "taxa" at me, again with no context nor linkage to any page that might explain them easily. I'm not sure this is really the way to begin an article that intends to inform rather than drive a reader away. Captain Infinity (talk) 17:44, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

Why removed

Hello User:Smith609, why have you removed the following sentence? https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pteropoda&type=revision&diff=696165918&oldid=696165632

Jörger et al. (2010) have moved pteropods (pteropods include two clades: Gymnosomata and Thecosomata) to Euopisthobranchia.

Regards, --Snek01 (talk) 13:02, 13 May 2017 (UTC)

Because it falls within the overview given in the taxonomy section and is not given sufficient context to stand alone. Feel free to beef it up and supplement it with a review of other approaches to the taxonomy of the group. Martin (Smith609 – Talk) 09:20, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

Are they plankton?

Are pteropods zooplankton? The article doesn't say. Also, what do pteropods eat, and which organisms eat pteropods? Do whales eat pteropods? 173.88.246.138 (talk) 01:48, 4 September 2022 (UTC)

Phylogeny

This tree is from Peijnenburg et al, 2020, according the the reference cited, but this tree is not found in that manuscript. Additionally, the labelling of the branches is incorrect, "Cavolinioidea" should not be in the superfamily "Limacinoidea". It is a superfamily of its own (according to WoRMS), and should label the branch directly below "Limacinoidea" on the tree. Trippster08 (talk) 15:09, 22 December 2022 (UTC)