Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca

Gastropoda Cuvier, 1795

Rank: Class
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Gastropoda incertae sedis
Neritimorpha Koken, 1896
Orthogastropoda W. F. Ponder & D. R. Lindberg, 1996
Patellogastropoda Lindberg, 1986
Prosobranchia Milne Edwards, 1848
Vetigastropoda Salvini-Plawen, 1980

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: buikpotigen; slakken sources: Backeljau, T. (1986). Lijst van de recente mariene mollusken van België [List of the recent marine molluscs of Belgium]. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 106 pp.;Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.

English: gastropods; gastropods; snails and slugs sources: Charles Hussey

Swedish: snäckor sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Ukrainian: Черевоногі

Literature

original description	Cuvier, G. 1795. Second Mémoire sur l'organisation et les rapports des animaux à sang blanc, dans lequel on traite de la structure des Mollusques et de leur division en ordre, lu à la société d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris, le 11 prairial an troisième [30 May 1795]. Magazin Encyclopédique, ou Journal des Sciences, des Lettres et des Arts, 1795 [1. année] 2: 433-449.
basis of record	Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia. 47 (1-2): 1-397. [20 July].
additional source	Zapata, F.; Wilson, N. G.; Howison, M.; Andrade, S. C. S.; Jorger, K. M.; Schrodl, M.; Goetz, F. E.; Giribet, G.; Dunn, C. W. (2014). Phylogenomic analyses of deep gastropod relationships reject Orthogastropoda. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 281(1794): 20141739-20141739.
additional source	Ponder, W. F.; Lindberg, D. R. (1997). Towards a phylogeny of gastropod molluscs: an analysis using morphological characters. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 119: 83-265.
additional source	Geiger D.L., Marshall B.A., Ponder W.F., Sasaki T. & Warén A. (2007) Techniques for collecting, handling, preparing, storing and examining small molluscan specimens. Molluscan Research 27(1): 1–50.