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Opisthobranchia 
AphiaID: 382226

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Heterobranchia (Subclass)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Infraclass
Parent Heterobranchia
Source  basis of record: An outline for the classification of Phylum Mollusca in taxonomic databases [report elaborated by WoRMS editors for internal use, june 2010] [details] [full text]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Dutch achterkieuwige slakken  [details]
Dutch achterkieuwigen  [details]
English sea slugs  [details]
Swedish bakgälade snäckor  [details]
Direct child
taxa
 Order Acochlidiacea
Order Anaspidea
Order Cephalaspidea
Order Gymnosomata
Order Nudibranchia
Order Pleurobranchomorpha
Order Runcinacea
Order Sacoglossa
Order Thecosomata
Order Umbraculida

Superorder Nudipleura (alternate representation, clade includng Pleurobranchomorpha and Nudibranchia)
Superorder Pteropoda (alternate representation, clade including Gymnosomata and Thecosomata)
Order Tectibranchiata (alternate representation, for Cephalaspidea)

Order Aplysiomorpha accepted as Anaspidea
Order Ascoglossa accepted as Sacoglossa
Order Notaspidea accepted as Pleurobranchomorpha
Environment marine
Link To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:382226
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2009-02-03 09:16:23Z  created  Gofas, Serge
  
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  Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Opisthobranchia. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=382226 on 2013-05-21
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