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Rhodopidae is a
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sea snail Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...
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opisthobranch Opisthobranchs () is now an informal name for a large and diverse group of specialized complex gastropods which used to be united in the subclass Opisthobranchia. That taxon is no longer considered to represent a monophyletic grouping. Euopisth ...
gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
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Murchisonelloidea Murchisonelloidea is an unassigned superfamily of mostly very small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks and micromollusks within the clade Heterobranchia.Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G.; Bouchet, P. (2015). Murchisonelloidea Casey, 1904. Accessed thro ...
.Bouchet, P. (2015). Rhodopidae Ihering, 1876. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=23111 on 2015-04-14


Genera

Genera include: * '' Helminthope'' Salvini-Plawen, 1991 * ''
Rhodope Rhodope may refer to: * Rhodope (mythology), a figure of Greek mythology * Rhodope Mountains, in Bulgaria and Greece * Rhodope (regional unit), of Greece * Rhodope (province), a Roman and Byzantine province * 166 Rhodope, an asteroid * Rhodope (genu ...
'' Koelliker, 1847 ;Genera brought into synonymy: * ''Sidonia'' Schulze, 1854: synonym of ''Rhodope'' Koelliker, 1847


Taxonomy

Molecular work has shown that this family is a basal clade of heterobranch Mollusca. Anatomically aberrant, Rhodopidae have been shown to be related to snails of the family
Murchisonellidae Murchisonellidae is a taxonomic family of sea snails, marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Murchisonelloidea.Bouchet, P. (2015). Murchisonellidae Casey, 1904. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www ...
which all have a narrow shell with many whorls.Wilson, N. G.; Jörger, K. M.; Brenzinger, B.; Schrödl, M. (2017)
Phylogenetic placement of the enigmatic worm-like Rhodopemorpha slugs as basal Heterobranchia.
Journal of Molluscan Studies. 1-10.


References


Further reading

* Haszprunar, G. and G. Huber. (1990)
On the central nervous system of Smeagolidae and Rhodopidae, two families questionably allied to the Gymnomorpha (Gastropoda, Euthyneura).
''Journal of Zoology'' 220: 185-199.


External links

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