Gastropods (Class Gastropoda) include a wide variety of organisms such as terrestrial snails and slugs, sea slugs, sea hares, sea butterflies, canoe shells, conchs, whelks, limpets, periwinkles, oyster borers, coweries, nudibranchs, and many others. The Gastropoda group is the largest of all mollusc groups, with approximately 40,000 living species and fossil evidence of over 15,000 extinct species.
The unifying characteristics of gastropods include:
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References:
- Burnie D, Wilson DE. 2001. Animal. London: Dorling Kindersley. 624 p.
- Ruert EE, Fox RS, Barnes, RD. 2004. Invertebrate Zoology. Belmont: Thomson Learning. 963 p.
