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Cephalaspidea
Sign in to saveThe order Cephalaspidea, also known as the headshield slugs and bubble snails, is a major taxon of sea slugs and bubble snails, marine gastropod mollusks within the larger clade Euopisthobranchia. Bubble shells is another common name for these families of marine gastropods, some of which have thin bubble-like shells. This clade contains more than 600 species.
Species
bubble snails
ORDER
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderCephalaspidea
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,833
- With media
- 84
- Collections
- SDNHM, LACM, YPM, CAS, PRI, SIO
- Recorded in
- United States, Mexico, Brazil, Philippines
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Tectipleura
- Image
- Chelidonura varians.jpg
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- Commons category
- Cephalaspidea
- taxon rank
- order
- taxon name
- Cephalaspidea
- topic's main category
- Category:Cephalaspidea
- taxon common name
- Kopfschildträger
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Anatomy
- Life habits and related anatomical structures
- Taxonomy
- Linnaean taxonomy
- 2005 taxonomy
- 2009 taxonomy
- 2010 taxonomy
- 2015 taxonomy
- References
The order Cephalaspidea, also known as the headshield slugs and bubble snails, is a major taxon of sea slugs and bubble snails, marine gastropod mollusks within the larger clade Euopisthobranchia. Bubble shells is another common name for these families of marine gastropods, some of which have thin bubble-like shells. This clade contains more than 600 species.
Members of this worldwide clade used to be considered the most ancestral of the opisthobranchs, but now they are considered as derived from and specialized members of the Euthyneura Spengel, 1881.
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