Recommendation:

Tag Alias: mollusc --> mollusk

Reason:

Standardization of tags.

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Recommendations:

Tag Implications:

snail --> mollusk
slug --> mollusk
crab --> mollusk
lobster --> mollusk

Reason:

Snails, slugs, crabs, lobsters, and other animals not mentioned here are mollusks. Mollusks can be considered an umbrella term in the same vein as bird, avian, canine, feline, equine, etc.

"Mollusk" just looks weird. Damn US English.

Snowy said:
"Mollusk" just looks weird. Damn US English.

"Mollusc" looks weird, too. I guess it depends on which side of the pond we're used to flopping around on. :p

But do we really need a mollusc tag?
Searching for snail, octopi, squids and the like is pretty straightforward enough, and there's no real way to not know which species of mollusc you're tagging, if you know your animals.

Also, crabs and lobsters are not molluscs. They are crustaceans. :P

Riversyde said:
Also, crabs and lobsters are not molluscs. They are crustaceans. :P

Touché. Thank you for the reminder. I'd gotten to the point where animals w/ shells = mollusks (...despite slugs not having shells...) and then my brain went cross-eyed.

Perhaps:
crab --> crustacean
lobster --> crustacean
etc.

But do we really need a mollusc tag?
Searching for snail, octopi, squids and the like is pretty straightforward enough, and there's no real way to not know which species of mollusc you're tagging, if you know your animals.

Someone seemed to think we needed a mollusc/mollusk tag. If we've got umbrella terms like bird/avian or dinosaur, then why not mollusk?

Of course, now that I've reviewed what a mollusk is, I'm inclined to agree with you, and that it might be better to simply remove mollusc/mollusk instead.

Okay, blitzed the mollusc/mollusk tags, done the crab/lobster -> crustacean implications.