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Gas`trop´o`da

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(Zool.) One of the classes of Mollusca, of great extent. It includes most of the marine spiral shells, and the land and fresh-water snails. They generally creep by means of a flat, muscular disk, or foot, on the ventral side of the body. The head usually bears one or two pairs of tentacles. See Mollusca.

Thesaurus

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Gastropoda - snails and slugs and their relatives class Gasteropoda, class Gastropoda, Gasteropoda Mollusca, phylum Mollusca - gastropods; bivalves; cephalopods; chitons gastropod, univalve - a class of mollusks typically having a one-piece coiled shell and flattened muscular foot with a head bearing stalked eyes family Haliotidae, Haliotidae - abalones family Strombidae, Strombidae - the family of conchs family Limacidae, Limacidae - slugs family Neritidae, Neritidae - neritids Buccinidae, family Buccinidae - whelks Cymatiidae, family Cymatiidae - tritons family Naticidae, Naticidae - moonshells family Littorinidae, Littorinidae - periwinkles limpet - any of various usually marine gastropods with low conical shells; found clinging to rocks in littoral areas family Patellidae, Patellidae - marine limpets family Fissurellidae, Fissurellidae - marine limpets Ancylidae, family Ancylidae - freshwater gastropod Opisthobranchia, subclass Opisthobranchia - gastropods having the gills when present posterior to the heart and having no operculum: includes sea slugs; sea butterflies; sea hares Akeridae, family Akeridae - bubble shells order Pulmonata, Pulmonata - large order of gastropods usually breathing by means of a lung-like sac comprising most land snails and slugs and many freshwater snails order Pectinibranchia, Pectinibranchia - large order of gastropods comprising univalve mollusks that have a single gill resembling a comb Amphineura, subclass Amphineura - a class of Gastropoda class - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders