Cardiapoda
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Cardiapoda is a genus of very small floating sea snail
s or heteropods, pelagic gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family
Carinariidae
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Both tentacles are of equal size and well-developed. The external layer of the body wall is thin.
They are found worldwide in the pelagic zone
of warm seas.
Snail
Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
s or heteropods, pelagic gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Carinariidae
Carinariidae
Carinariidae, known by the common name "heteropods" like their relatives in the Pterotracheoidea, is a taxonomic family of swimming or floating sea snails, pelagic marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha.- Distribution :...
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Both tentacles are of equal size and well-developed. The external layer of the body wall is thin.
They are found worldwide in the pelagic zone
Pelagic zone
Any water in a sea or lake that is not close to the bottom or near to the shore can be said to be in the pelagic zone. The word pelagic comes from the Greek πέλαγος or pélagos, which means "open sea". The pelagic zone can be thought of in terms of an imaginary cylinder or water column that goes...
of warm seas.
Species
- Cardiapoda placentaCardiapoda placentaCardiapoda placenta, common name the flat cardiapod, is a species of sea snail, a rare pelagic gastropod mollusc in the family Carinariidae....
(LessonRené-Primevère LessonRené Primevère Lesson was a French surgeon, naturalist, ornithologist, and herpetologist.Lesson was born at Rochefort, and at the age of sixteen he entered the Naval Medical School there...
, 1831) - flat cardiapod - Cardiapoda richardiCardiapoda richardiCardiapoda richardi is a species of sea gastropod, a holoplanktonic marine gastropod mollusk in the family Carinariidae....
Vayssière, 1903
Synonyms
- Cardiapoda acuta Tesch, 1906 (synonym of Cardiapoda placenta (Lesson, 1831) )
- Cardiapoda carinata D'OrbignyAlcide d'OrbignyAlcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny was a French naturalist who made major contributions in many areas, including zoology , palaeontology, geology, archaeology and anthropology....
, 1834 (synonym of Cardiapoda richardi Vayssière, 1903) - Cardiapoda pedunculata D'OrbignyAlcide d'OrbignyAlcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny was a French naturalist who made major contributions in many areas, including zoology , palaeontology, geology, archaeology and anthropology....
, 1835 (synonym of Cardiapoda placenta (Lesson, 1831) ) - Cardiapoda sublaevis Tesch, 1906 (synonym of Cardiapoda placenta (Lesson, 1831) )