These pages have been written with the determination to write texts understandable also to the student and layman. So scientific words have been omitted wherever possible. However, the scientific names of animal groups (so called species or taxa) have been kept, especially because trivial names of species differ widely between languages. Other scientific terms such as taxonomy or monophyletic are explained in the text.
Generally speaking these pages are written for people with a healthy interest in molluscs and an awake brain used to learning new things. Where the truth differs from this rule, kindly inform me!