Cardiapoda | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Family: | Carinariidae |
Genus: |
Cardiapoda D'Orbigny, 1835 |
Species | |
See text |
Cardiapoda is a genus of very small floating sea snails or heteropods, pelagic gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Carinariidae.
Both tentacles are of equal size and well-developed. The external layer of the body wall is thin.
They are found worldwide in the pelagic zone of warm seas.
Cardiapoda | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Family: | Carinariidae |
Genus: |
Cardiapoda D'Orbigny, 1835 |
Species | |
See text |
Cardiapoda is a genus of very small floating sea snails or heteropods, pelagic gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Carinariidae.
Both tentacles are of equal size and well-developed. The external layer of the body wall is thin.
They are found worldwide in the pelagic zone of warm seas.