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Mollusca (snails, limpets, mussels, chitons,
squid, octopuses, etc)
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Pear Limpet Patella
cochlear (photo H.G. Robertson, S.A. Museum).
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Nudibranch Mandelia mirocornata
(Mandeliidae),
named after Nelson Mandela (photo kindly supplied by
Ángel Valdés and Terry Gosliner, California
Academy of Sciences - copyright)
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Garden snail Helix aspersa
(photo H.G. Robertson, S.A. Museum).
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Classification
- Class: Aplacophora.
Worm-shaped deap-sea molluscs without shells. See the Aplacophora
Home Page.
- Class: Bivalvia (Bivalves)
- Class: Cephalopoda (Cephalopods)
- Class: Gastropoda (Gastropods)
- Subclass: Prosobranchia (winkles, whelks
and limpets)
- Archaeogastropoda
- Mesogastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Subclass: Opisthobranchia (sea slugs and
nudibranchs)
- Acochlidioidea
- Cephalaspidea (bubble shells)
- Runcinoidea
- Sacoglossa
- Anaspidea (sea hares)
- Thecosomata
- Gymnosomata
- Notaspidea
- Nudibranchia (sea slugs). Includes a
species recently named after Nelson Mandela called Mandelia
mirocornata.
- Subclass: Pulmonata (snails, slugs and
false limpets)
- Archaeopulmonata
- Basommatophora
- Stylommatophora
- Class: Monoplacophora
- Class: Polyplacophora (Chitons).
- Class: Scaphopoda (Tusk shells)
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