Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Caenogastropoda incertae sedis

Heteroglossa Haszprunar, 1985

Rank: Suborder
Taxon Status: unaccepted
Name Status: alternate representation

note: A group named for the superfamilies Cerithiopsoidea, Triphoroidea, Epitonioidea and Eulimoidea and therefore roughly equivalent to "Ptenoglossa". Not to be confused with Heteroglossa Gray, 1857, a long abandonned name originally proposed as a suborder of

Literature

original description	Haszprunar, G. (1985). The fine morphology of the osphradial sense organs of the Mollusca. Part 1: Gastropoda- Prosobranchia. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B. 307(1133): 457-496.
basis of record	Vaught, K.C.; Abbott, R.T.; Boss, K.J. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne. ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
additional source	An outline for the classification of Phylum Mollusca in taxonomic databases [report elaborated by WoRMS editors for internal use, june 2010]

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Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Heteroglossa. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:14778

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