Cardiapoda

Taxobox
name = "Cardiapoda"


image_caption =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Caenogastropoda
ordo = Sorbeoconcha
subordo = Hypsogastropoda
infraordo = Littorinimorpha
superfamilia = Pterotracheoidea
familia = Carinariidae
genus = "Cardiapoda"
genus_authority = D'Orbigny, 1835
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Cardiapoda" is a genus of very small floating sea snails or heteropods, pelagic gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Carinariidae.

The animal resembles that of "Carinaria" but of much smaller size, and with only a minute shell, attached or immersed, at the ventral extremity of the visceral nucleus, but mostly the shell is absent. Found world-wide in warm seas.

pecies

* "Cardiapoda acuta" Tesch, 1906
* "Cardiapoda carinata" D'Orbigny, 1834
* "Cardiapoda pedunculata" D'Orbigny, 1835
* "Cardiapoda placenta" (Lesson, 1830) - flat cardiapod
* "Cardiapoda richardi" Vayssière, 1903
* "Cardiapoda sublaevis" Tesch, 1906

References

* [http://tolweb.org/Cardiapoda/28742 Tree of Life Cardiapoda]
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* Powell A. W. B., "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1