Heterobranchia
Clade of gastropods / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Heterobranchia, the heterobranchs (meaning "different-gilled snails"), is a taxonomic clade of snails and slugs, which includes marine, aquatic and terrestrial gastropod mollusks.
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Heterobranchia | |
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Four examples of Heterobranchia | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia J.E. Gray, 1840 |
Taxonomic subcategories | |
informal group Lower Heterobranchia |
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Heterobranchia is one of the main clades of gastropods. Currently Heterobranchia comprises three informal groups: the lower heterobranchs, the opisthobranchs and the pulmonates.[2]