Class Gasteropoda (Noun)
Meaning
Snails and slugs and their relatives.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- Snails and slugs belong to the class Gastropoda and have been observed to have a huge range of species.
- Gastropoda is the most diverse class of mollusks and includes the land snails and the sea snails.
- Of the more than 40,000 known molluscan species, over 90% of them belong to the class Gastropoda.
- There are a lot of different species such as types of sea hares, types of sea cucumber-like sea slugs and the common land class Gastropoda.
- The Gastropoda class of marine mollusks have included species like the limping snail, and the colorful snails, and most species of marine slugs.