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Pulmonata
Sign in to savePulmonata or pulmonates is an informal group (previously an order, and before that, a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group includes many land and freshwater families, and several marine families.
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Pulmonata, commonly referred to as pulmonate snails, is an unaccepted taxon at the rank of Infraclass within the class Gastropoda and phylum Mollusca. The group encompasses organisms found in marine, brackish, and freshwater habitats. In taxonomic databases, the subject is associated with the category Panpulmonata.
Specimen records for this taxon are held by institutions including MSB, UAM, CMN, and FMNH. These records originate from the United States and Canada, with a total of 102 records documented. No media files are associated with these entries. The taxon is referenced by 4,001 other encyclopedia articles.
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Species
pulmonate snails
Infraclass
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 102
- Collections
- MSB, UAM, CMN, FMNH
- Recorded in
- United States, Canada
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Encyclopedic overview
17 sectionsContents
- Linnean taxonomy
- 2005 taxonomy
- Informal Group Pulmonata
- Informal Group Basommatophora
- Clade [[Hygrophila (Gastropoda)|Hygrophila]]
- Clade Eupulmonata
- Clade [[Systellommatophora]] ( = [[Gymnomorpha]])
- Clade [[Stylommatophora]]
- Subclade [[Elasmognatha]]
- Subclade [[Orthurethra]]
- Informal Group [[Sigmurethra]]
- [[limacoid clade]]
- other Sigmurethra
- 2010 taxonomy
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Pulmonata or pulmonates is an informal group (previously an order, and before that, a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group includes many land and freshwater families, and several marine families.
The taxon Pulmonata as traditionally defined was found to be polyphyletic in a molecular study per Jörger et al., dating from 2010.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pulmonata” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.