Cardiapoda placenta

Taxobox
name = "Cardiapoda placenta"
status =


regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropod
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Caenogastropoda
ordo = Sorbeoconcha
subordo = Hypsogastropoda
infraordo = Littorinimorpha
superfamilia = Pterotracheoidea
familia = Carinariidae
genus = "Cardiapoda"
species = "C. placenta"
binomial = "Cardiapoda placenta"
binomial_authority = (Lesson, 1830)
synonyms =

"Cardiapoda placenta", or flat cardiapod, is a rare pelagic gastropod mollusc in the family Carinariidae, found worldwide in warm seas between latitudes 40° North and 40° South at depths of up to 650 m.

The animal resembles that of "Carinaria" but is of much smaller size, and with only a minute shell, attached or immersed, at the ventral extremity of the visceral nucleus.

References

* Powell A. W. B., "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
* [http://tolweb.org/Cardiapoda_placenta/28744 Tree of Life: Cardiapoda placenta]