Heterobranchia

Heterobranchia
Temporal range: Emsian-Present[1]
Four examples of Heterobranchia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
J.E. Gray, 1840
Taxonomic subcategories

informal group Lower Heterobranchia
clade Nudipleura
clade Euopisthobranchia
clade Panpulmonata

Heterobranchia, the heterobranchs (meaning "different-gilled snails"), is a taxonomic clade of snails and slugs, which includes marine, aquatic, and terrestrial gastropod molluscs.

Heterobranchia is one of the main clades of gastropods. Currently Heterobranchia comprises two groups: the opisthobranchs, and the pulmonates.[2]

A shell of the marine species Bulla quoyii, which is an opisthobranch.
  1. ^ "PBDB". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  2. ^ "Mollusca: Gastropoda: Heterobranchia". ucmp.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2025-01-11.

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