Class Gastropoda (Noun)
Meaning
Snails and slugs and their relatives.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- The phylum mollusca includes the large class Gastropoda which comprises snails and slugs, with over 60,000 known species.
- Class Gastropoda is the largest group of organisms within the mollusca phylum and it contains both sea and land animals.
- Many abalone and whelk species within the diverse class Gastropoda are found in marine environments around the world.
- During certain stages of evolution the class Gastropoda possessed bilateral body symmetry, only to lose some aspect of it in numerous animal species.
- Land-based animals such as garden snails are part of class Gastropoda, often having spiral-based flesh-covered shells for protective properties.