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Thecosomata
Blainville, 1824
- shelled pteropods
(mollusc)
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Pteropoda (Order) - sea butterflies
..Gymnosomata (Suborder) - naked pteropods
..Thecosomata (Suborder) - shelled pteropods
....Cavolinioidea (Superfamily)
....Cymbulioidea (Superfamily)
Concise hierarchy
(Kingdom)
Animalia
-
(Phylum)
Mollusca
-
(Class)
Gastropoda
-
(Order)
Pteropoda
Subsequent entries
Cavolinioidea
(Superfamily)
Gray, 1850 (1815)
Current position
Pteropoda
(Order)
Cuvier, 1804
Ref:
E.E. Ruppert et al., 2004
: 341.
[indirect]
Alternative positions
Opisthobranchia
(Order)
Milne-Edwards, 1848
Ref:
R.H. de Bruyne, 2003
: 313.
opisthobranchs
([unranked])
Ref:
E.E. Ruppert et al., 2004
: 341.
Historical positions
opisthobranchs
([unranked])
Ref:
E.E. Ruppert et al., 2004
: 341.
Opisthobranchia
(Order)
Milne-Edwards, 1848
Ref:
R.H. de Bruyne, 2003
: 313.
Cephalaspidea
(Order)
Fischer, 1883
Ref:
B. Grzimek, 1973-1975
Number of Subtaxa
2025
Available in Systema Naturae 2000
5f;15g;12s; †1f;1g
1989-present
Systema Naturae 2000
5f; †1f
2003
R.H. de Bruyne
[5f]
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