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Pages in category "Gastropod taxonomy" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Apogastropoda; C.
Gastropod – any member of the class Gastropoda, which includes slugs and snails. What type of things are gastropods? Gastropods can be considered to be, or viewed ...
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In many marine gastropods where the siphon is particularly long, the structure of the shell has been modified in order to house and protect the soft tissue of the siphon. This shell modification is known as the siphonal canal. For a gastropod whose shell has an exceptionally long siphonal canal, see Venus comb murex.
The shell of Stenotrema florida, a land snail or terrestrial gastropod.The periostracum of this species has minute hairs, giving the snail a velvety feel A yellowish tan periostracum is visible on the lower two thirds of this juvenile (8 cm) valve of the marine bivalve Spisula solidissima The dark periostracum is flaking off of this dried-out valve of the "ocean quahog", marine bivalve Arctica ...
Request to editors: please do not create any more categories of gastropods by country. Instead create list articles, article with a list of the marine or non-marine gastropods of whichever country or area you are interested in. We would also like to empty and delete the two remaining country categories we have, adding that information to list ...
Some evolutionary lineages of gastropods have evolved a proboscis. In gastropods, the proboscis is an elongation of the snout with the ability to retract inside the body; it can be used for feeding, sensing the environment, and in some cases, capturing prey or attaching to hosts.