Stylommatophora

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Translingual

Etymology

New Latin, from Ancient Greek στύλωμα (stúlōma, prop, support) +‎ -phora

Proper noun

Stylommatophora

  1. Air-breathing land snails and slugs, including the majority of land snails and slugs
    1. A taxonomic infraorder within the order Pulmonata.
    2. A taxonomic order within the subclass Heterobranchia.[1]

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, →DOI