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Eupulmonata
Clade of gastropods / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eupulmonata is a taxonomic clade of air-breathing gastropod molluscs. The great majority of this group are land snails and slugs, but some are intertidal or inhabit coastal saltmarshes and mangroves.
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Eupulmonata | |
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Cepaea nemoralis | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subcohort: | Panpulmonata |
Superorder: | Eupulmonata Haszprunar & Huber, 1990 |
Clades | |
clade Systellommatophora |
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Possible synapomorphy of the group are globineurons (small cells) in the procerebrum.[1]
Eyes positioned on the tips of the tentacles were considered a synapomorphy of a clade named Geophila (Stylommatophora + Systellommatophora), but a 1972 phylogenomic study found strong support for a clade uniting Ellobioidea (eyes at the base of tentacles) and Systelommatopohra (eyes on the tentacle tips). Stalked eyes thus likely evolved twice independently.[1]