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Gastropod - member of the class Gastropoda, the largest and most successful class of mollusks containing over 35,000 living species and 15,000 fossil forms. The shell of gastropods is of one piece (called unival...
Gastropods are univalves (have only one shell). Hermit crabs often make homes of unoccupied lightning whelk shells. A lightning whelk leaves behind a trail when crawling. It is often easy to track them.
Gastropoda (previously known as univalves and sometimes spelled Gasteropoda) are a major part of the phylum Mollusca and are the most highly diversified class in the phylum, with 60,000 to 80,000 living snail and slug species.
The class Gastropoda or gastropods (also previously known as univalves and sometimes also spelled Gasteropoda) form a major part of the phylum Mollusca.
The contents of the stomach are numerous very small univalve shells of a great variety of species and fragments of larger shells, which, however, have probably been used in place of gravel; ...
Used extensively in Otago for fence posts and railway sleepers, the straight trunks of Lancewood also made good piles for the jetty at Port Chalmers, where the piles lasted for 30 years without damage by Teredo spp. (a univalve mollusc often ...
 See also: Shell, Gastropod, Mollusca, Mollusk, Snail
  
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