Caenogastropoda

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Caenogastropoda is a major and highly diverse clade of marine, freshwater, and terrestrial snails and slugs within the class Gastropoda.

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Label Occurrences
Caenogastropoda canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf clade
subclass
taxon
class Gastropoda
describedBy M. Thiele NERFINISHED
distribution worldwide
domain Eukaryota NERFINISHED
habitat freshwater environments
marine environments
terrestrial environments
hasCharacteristic complex radula types
frequent development of proboscis
frequent internal fertilization
high species diversity
often separate sexes (dioecy)
often siphonate mantle cavity
predominantly asymmetrical body plan
torsion typical of gastropods
usually a single auricle in the heart
usually a single gill (ctenidium)
hasEcologicalRole filter feeders
grazers
predators
scavengers
hasSynonym Orthogastropoda Caenogastropoda (in some older classifications)
hasTypeOfReproduction oviparous in most species
includes freshwater snails
many economically important marine snails
many species that are intermediate hosts of parasitic trematodes
marine snails
numerous freshwater pest snails
slugs
terrestrial snails
includesOrder Architaenioglossa NERFINISHED
Hypsogastropoda NERFINISHED
Littorinimorpha NERFINISHED
Neogastropoda NERFINISHED
Sorbeoconcha NERFINISHED
isA group of snails and slugs
isPartOf Heterobranchia and other gastropod clades grouping (historically Mesogastropoda and Neogastropoda)
kingdom Animalia
parentTaxon Gastropoda
partOf clade Apogastropoda (in some classifications)
phylum Mollusca NERFINISHED
studiedIn malacology
subdivisionRanks orders
taxonRank subclass
yearDescribed 1925

How these facts were elicited

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Gastropoda hasModernClade Caenogastropoda