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Gastropods inhabit an extraordinary range of environments, including marine, freshwater, and terrestrial ecosystems. They occur in gardens, woodlands, deserts, mountains, rivers, lakes, estuaries, mudflats, intertidal zones, the deep sea, hydrothermal vents, and even in parasitic niches.

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Gastropod | Definition, Examples, & Facts | Britannica

gastropod, any member of more than 65,000 animal species belonging to the class Gastropoda, the largest group in the phylum Mollusca.

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Gastropod - Characteristics, Examples, Anatomy, Fossils & Pictures

Gastropods are members of the class Gastropoda, a highly broad group of mollusks that includes snails and slugs. They have a visceral hump, mantle, muscular foot, eyes, tentacles, and a specialized feeding organ called the radula, composed of many tiny teeth. Snails generally have a coiled, one-piece shell, while slugs are shell-less.

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What Are Gastropods? Characteristics & Functions

Gastropods (class Gastropoda) represent the largest and most diverse class of mollusks, encompassing familiar creatures like snails, slugs, limpets, and sea butterflies.

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Class Gastropoda - Digital Atlas of Ancient Life

Gastropods are the second largest class of animals (after the Insecta)—with 40,000–90,000 living species and at least 13,000 extant and fossil genera (Ponder and Lindberg, 2020)—and are also one of the most evolutionarily successful groups in the variety of ecosystems and habitats that they occupy.

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Gastropod - New World Encyclopedia

Gastropods are also referred to as univalves since most have a single shell, or valve, which is characteristically coiled or spiraled, as in snails, limpets, abalones, cowries, whelks, and conches.

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What Is a Gastropod? Characteristics, Types & Diet

Some gastropods are scavengers, feeding on dead plant or animal matter; others are detritivores, consuming decomposed organic material. Filter feeders capture small food particles from water currents using their gills or mantle lining. A few gastropod species are parasites, feeding on the bodily fluids of invertebrates.

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Gastropod - Ohio Department of Natural Resources

Gastropods are a class of invertebrate mollusks, both aquatic and terrestrial, represented by the familiar snails and slugs. They have lived on Earth for about 500 million years, with the earliest gastropod fossils known from rocks of Late Cambrian age.

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Gastropod - Mollusks, Shells, Taxonomy | Britannica

Certain species are of direct or indirect commercial and even medical importance to humans. Many gastropod species, for example, are necessary intermediate hosts for parasitic flatworms (class Trematoda, phylum Platyhelminthes), such as the species that cause schistosomiasis in humans.

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Gastropods | Marvelous Mollusks — Museum of the Earth

Gastropods, also known as snails and slugs, are the second largest class of animals after insects. There may be 90,000 living species today! Gastropods make a living in just about every way you can imagine, in all sorts of ecosystems. They crawl, swim, and even surf on waves!