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Reptantia :: Reptantia (n. pl.) A division of gastropods; the Pectinibranchiata.

Limpet :: Limpet (n.) In a general sense, any hatshaped, or conical, gastropod shell..

Heteropoda :: Heteropoda (n. pl.) An order of pelagic Gastropoda, having the foot developed into a median fin. Some of the species are naked; others, as Carinaria and Atlanta, have thin glassy shells..

Scutibranchiata :: Scutibranchiata (n. pl.) An order of gastropod Mollusca having a heart with two auricles and one ventricle. The shell may be either spiral or shieldlike.

Nerita :: Nerita (n.) A genus of marine gastropods, mostly natives of warm climates..

Snail :: Snail (n.) Any one of numerous species of terrestrial air-breathing gastropods belonging to the genus Helix and many allied genera of the family Helicidae. They are abundant in nearly all parts of the world except the arctic regions, and feed almost entirely on vegetation; a land snail..

Euthyneura :: Euthyneura (n. pl.) A large division of gastropod molluske, including the Pulmonifera and Opisthobranchiata..

Frogshell :: Frogshell (n.) One of numerous species of marine gastropod shells, belonging to Ranella and allied genera..

Holostomata :: Holostomata (n. pl.) An artificial division of gastropods, including those that have an entire aperture..

Vitrina :: Vitrina (n.) A genus of terrestrial gastropods, having transparent, very thin, and delicate shells, -- whence the name..

Winkle :: Winkle (n.) Any one of various marine spiral gastropods, esp., in the United States, either of two species of Fulgar (F. canaliculata, and F. carica)..

Isopleura :: Isopleura (n. pl.) A subclass of Gastropoda, in which the body is symmetrical, the right and left sides being equal..

Gastropod :: Gastropod (n.) One of the Gastropoda.

Rhachiglossa :: Rhachiglossa (n. pl.) A division of marine gastropods having a retractile proboscis and three longitudinal rows of teeth on the radula. It includes many of the large ornamental shells, as the miters, murices, olives, purpuras, volutes, and whelks. See Illust. in Append..

Turritella :: Turritella (n.) Any spiral marine gastropod belonging to Turritella and allied genera. These mollusks have an elongated, turreted shell, composed of many whorls. They have a rounded aperture, and a horny multispiral operculum..

Rostrifera :: Rostrifera (n. pl.) A division of pectinibranchiate gastropods, having the head prolonged into a snout which is not retractile..

Ianthina :: Ianthina (n.) Any gastropod of the genus Ianthina, of which various species are found living in mid ocean; -- called also purple shell, and violet snail..

Turbinella :: Turbinella (n.) A genus of large marine gastropods having a thick heavy shell with conspicuous folds on the columella.

Inoperculate :: Inoperculate (a.) Having no operculum; -- said of certain gastropod shells.

Proboscidifera :: Proboscidifera (n. pl.) An extensive division of pectinibranchiate gastropods, including those that have a long retractile proboscis, with the mouth at the end, as the cones, whelks, tritons, and cowries. See Illust. of Gastropoda, and of Winkle..

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