Tectipleura is a subterclass of land and water-dwelling
gastropods.
The group consists of over 27,000 various species, among which are various groups of
snails,
slug
Slug, or land slug, is a common name for any apparently shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusc. The word ''slug'' is also often used as part of the common name of any gastropod mollusc that has no shell, a very reduced shell, or only a smal ...
s, and
sea hares living across various diverse habitats around the world.
Tectipleura have existed for over 200 million years.
Subdivisions
* Superorder
Acochlidiacea
* Superorder
Eupulmonata
Eupulmonata is a taxonomic clade of air-breathing snails. The great majority of this group are land snails and slugs, but some are marine and some are saltmarsh snails that can tolerate salty conditions.
Linnean taxonomy
*Suborder Eupulmonata H ...
* Superorder
Hygrophila
* Superorder
Pneumopulmonata
* Superorder
Pylopulmonata
* Superorder
Sacoglossa
* Superorder
Siphonarimorpha
* Family
Aplysiidae
* Order
Cephalaspidea
* Order
Pteropoda
* Family
Runcinidae
Runcinidae is a family of medium-sized sea slugs, marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks. They are headshield slugs, in the superfamily Runcinoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). MolluscaBase eds. ( ...
* Family
Umbraculidae
Umbraculidae are a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic family (biology), family of unusual sea snails or limpets, marine (ocean), marine opisthobranch gastropod molluscs in the clade Umbraculida.
Distribution
This family has a global distribution in t ...
References
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Euthyneura
Gastropod taxa