Scientific classification or biological classification is a method by which biologists group and categorize species of organisms. Scientific classification also can be called scientific taxonomy, but should be distinguished from folk taxonomy, which lacks scientific basis.
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Mollusca
Linnaeus, 1758

Classes

Caudofoveata
Aplacophora
Polyplacophora
Monoplacophora
Bivalvia
Scaphopoda
Gastropoda
Cephalopoda
† Rostroconchia
† Helcionelloida
† ?Bellerophontida
The molluscs
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Gastropoda
Cuvier, 1797

Subclasses

Eogastropoda (True Limpets and relatives)
Orthogastropoda

The gastropods, also previously known as gasteropods, or univalves
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Orthogastropoda

Taxonomy

• See Text
  

In their work, which has become a standard reference in the field, Ponder and Lindberg (1997) showed that the Orthogastropoda
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Heterobranchia

Orders

Heterostropha
Opisthobranchia
Pulmonata

Heterobranchia (different-gilled snails) is a superorder of mollusks in the class gastropoda.

The families included in this recently established superorder of mollusks (G.
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Pulmonata

Suborders

• Systellommatophora
• Basommatophora
• Eupulmonata
  

The Pulmonata are an order (once a subclass) of snails and slugs that have developed a pallial lung and thus can breathe air.
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order (Latin: ordo, plural ordines) is a rank between class and family (termed a taxon at that rank). The superorder is a rank between class and order. Exact details of formal nomenclature depend on the Nomenclature Code which applies.
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Pulmonata

Suborders

• Systellommatophora
• Basommatophora
• Eupulmonata
  

The Pulmonata are an order (once a subclass) of snails and slugs that have developed a pallial lung and thus can breathe air.
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class is the rank in the scientific classification of organisms in biology below Phylum and above Order.

For example, Mammalia is the class used in the classification of dogs, whose phylum is Chordata (animals with notochords) and order is Carnivora (mammals that eat meat).
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Orthogastropoda

Taxonomy

• See Text
  

In their work, which has become a standard reference in the field, Ponder and Lindberg (1997) showed that the Orthogastropoda
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Mollusca
Linnaeus, 1758

Classes

Caudofoveata
Aplacophora
Polyplacophora
Monoplacophora
Bivalvia
Scaphopoda
Gastropoda
Cephalopoda
† Rostroconchia
† Helcionelloida
† ?Bellerophontida
The molluscs
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Onchidiidae
Gray, 1824

Genera
See text.

Onchidiidae are a family of pulmonate gastropod molluscs. They resemble shell-less limpets.

Genera

• Onchidella Gray, 1850
• Onchidina
• Onchidium

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The Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) is a partnership designed to provide consistent and reliable information on the taxonomy of biological species. ITIS was originally formed in 1996 as an interagency group within the U.S.
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