Heterobranchs
Heterobranchia
Heterobranchia, the heterobranchs (meaning "different gill"), 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.
9 branches of this subclass, most-observed first
Euthyneura
infraclassEuthyneura
Architectonicoidea
superfamilyArchitectonicoidea
Valve Snails and Allies
superfamilyValvatoidea
Omalogyroidea
superfamilyOmalogyroidea
Mesoneura
infraclassMesoneura
Nerineoidea
superfamilyNerineoidea
Cimoidea
superfamilyCimoidea
Orbitestelloidea
superfamilyOrbitestelloidea
Mathildoidea
superfamilyMathildoidea
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 551391.