Pulmonata


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Noun1.Pulmonata - large order of gastropods usually breathing by means of a lung-like sac comprising most land snails and slugs and many freshwater snails
animal order - the order of animals
class Gasteropoda, class Gastropoda, Gasteropoda, Gastropoda - snails and slugs and their relatives
family Helicidae, Helicidae - land snails including the common edible snail and some pests
family Physidae, Physidae - freshwater snails
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Kablaskova, "Larval trematodes (Digenea) of the great pond snail, lymnaea stagnalis (L.), (Gastropoda, pulmonata) in Central Europe: A survey of species and key to their identification," Parasite, vol.
Simone, "Eoholocene malacofauna (Gastropoda, Pulmonata) from a cave of National Park of Ubajara," Estudos Geologicos, vol.
T., Distribution, feeding behavior and control strategies of the exotic land snail Achatina fulica (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) in the northeast of Brazil.
A new dartless species of Cahuillus (Pulmonata: Helminthoglyptidae) from the Mojave Desert, California with a reassignment of Eremarionta rowelli unifasciata.
Seasonal bioconcentration of heavy metals in Onchidium struma (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) from Chongming Island, the Yangtze estuary, China.
[10.] Feldmeyer B, Wheat CW, Krezdorn N, Rotter B, Pfenninger M (2011) Short read Illumina data for the de novo assembly of a non-model snail species transcriptome (Radix balthica, Basommatophora, Pulmonata), and a comparison of assembler performance.
Table I: List of items contained in Sturnus vulgaris digestive tracts Stations Catches Test garden Hamma Number of Guts Examined 48 Classes Orders Families Numbers Gastropoda Pulmonata Helicellidae 6 Helicidae 2 Cochlicellidae 26 Arachnida Aranea Aranea sp.