Vetigastropods
Vetigastropoda
Vetigastropoda is a major taxonomic group of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks that form a very ancient lineage. Taxonomically the Vetigastropoda are sometimes treated as an order, although they are treated as an unranked clade in Bouchet and Rocroi, 2005.
Vetigastropods are considered to be among the most primitive living gastropods, and are widely distributed in all oceans of the world. Their habitats range from the deep sea to intertidal zones. Many have shells with slits or other secondary openings. One of their main characteristics is the presence of intersected crossed platy shell structure. Most vetigastropods have some bilateral asymmetry of their organ systems.
7 branches of this subclass, most-observed first
Trochida
orderTrochida
Keyhole Limpets, Abalone, and Allies
orderLepetellida
Seguenziida
orderSeguenziida
Pleurotomariida
orderPleurotomariida
Neomphalida
orderNeomphalida
Cocculiniform Limpets
orderCocculinida
Sahlingia
genusSahlingia
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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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 85549.