Pteropoda, the Glossary
Pteropoda (common name pteropods, from the Greek meaning "wing-foot") are specialized free-swimming pelagic sea snails and sea slugs, marine opisthobranch gastropods.[1]
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63 relations: Adaptation, Alcide d'Orbigny, Ancient Greek, Basteria, Biogeosciences, Borders of the oceans, Calcium carbonate, Callianira (ctenophore), Campanian, Carinaria, Carl Chun, Cavolinia (gastropod), Cephalopod, Charles Alexandre Lesueur, Clade, Clione limacina, Common name, Continental shelf, Convergent evolution, Ctenophora, Equator, François Péron, Gastropoda, Genus, Georges Cuvier, Glaucus (gastropod), Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville, Jean René Constant Quoy, John Edward Gray, Joseph Paul Gaimard, Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, Le Règne Animal, Limacina helicina, Limacinidae, Lorenz Oken, Louis François Auguste Souleyet, Marine life, Megabat, Molecular phylogenetics, Monophyly, Nudibranch, Ocean acidification, Opisthobranchia, Order (biology), Organisms Diversity & Evolution, Paraphyly, Parapodium, Pelagic zone, Phylliroe, Pierre André Latreille, ... Expand index (13 more) »
- Euopisthobranchia
- Obsolete gastropod taxa
Adaptation
In biology, adaptation has three related meanings.
Alcide d'Orbigny
Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny (6 September 1802 – 30 June 1857) was a French naturalist who made major contributions in many areas, including zoology (including malacology), palaeontology, geology, archaeology and anthropology.
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Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.
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Basteria
Basteria is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Netherlands Malacological Society, covering research on molluscs.
Biogeosciences
Biogeosciences is an open-access peer-reviewed scientific journal of the European Geosciences Union launched in 2004 by editors-in-chief Jean-Pierre Gattuso and Jürgen Kesselmeier.
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Borders of the oceans
The borders of the oceans are the limits of Earth's oceanic waters.
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Calcium carbonate
Calcium carbonate is a chemical compound with the chemical formula.
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Callianira (ctenophore)
Callianira is a genus of ctenophores belonging to the family Mertensiidae.
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Campanian
The Campanian is the fifth of six ages of the Late Cretaceous Epoch on the geologic timescale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS).
Carinaria
Carinaria is a genus of medium-sized floating sea snails, pelagic gastropod molluscs in the family Carinariidae.
Carl Chun
Carl Chun or Karl Friedrich Gustav Chun (1 October 1852 – 11 April 1914) was a German marine biologist who worked as a professor at the University of Königsberg (1883), Breslau (1891) and at Leipzig (1898).
Cavolinia (gastropod)
Cavolinia is a genus of gastropods belonging to the family Cavoliniidae.
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Cephalopod
A cephalopod is any member of the molluscan class Cephalopoda (Greek plural κεφαλόποδες,; "head-feet") such as a squid, octopus, cuttlefish, or nautilus.
Charles Alexandre Lesueur
Charles Alexandre Lesueur (1 January 1778 in Le Havre – 12 December 1846 in Le Havre) was a French naturalist, artist, and explorer.
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Clade
In biological phylogenetics, a clade, also known as a monophyletic group or natural group, is a grouping of organisms that are monophyletic – that is, composed of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants – on a phylogenetic tree.
Clione limacina
Clione limacina, known as the naked sea butterfly, sea angel, and common clione, is a sea angel (pelagic sea slug) found from the surface to greater than depth.
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Common name
In biology, a common name of a taxon or organism (also known as a vernacular name, English name, colloquial name, country name, popular name, or farmer's name) is a name that is based on the normal language of everyday life; and is often contrasted with the scientific name for the same organism, which is often based in Latin.
Continental shelf
A continental shelf is a portion of a continent that is submerged under an area of relatively shallow water, known as a shelf sea.
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Convergent evolution
Convergent evolution is the independent evolution of similar features in species of different periods or epochs in time.
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Ctenophora
Ctenophora (ctenophore) comprise a phylum of marine invertebrates, commonly known as comb jellies, that inhabit sea waters worldwide.
Equator
The equator is a circle of latitude that divides a spheroid, such as Earth, into the Northern and Southern hemispheres.
François Péron
François Auguste Péron (22 August 1775 – 14 December 1810) was a French naturalist and explorer.
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Gastropoda
Gastropods, commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda.
Genus
Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.
Georges Cuvier
Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, Baron Cuvier (23 August 1769 – 13 May 1832), known as Georges Cuvier, was a French naturalist and zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology".
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Glaucus (gastropod)
Glaucus is a genus of small blue pelagic sea slugs.
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Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville
Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (12 September 1777 – 1 May 1850) was a French zoologist and anatomist.
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Jean René Constant Quoy
Jean René Constant Quoy (10 November 1790 in Maillé – 4 July 1869 in Rochefort) was a French naval surgeon, zoologist and anatomist.
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John Edward Gray
John Edward Gray (12 February 1800 – 7 March 1875) was a British zoologist.
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Joseph Paul Gaimard
Joseph Paul Gaimard (31 January 1793 – 10 December 1858) was a French naval surgeon and naturalist.
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Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research
The Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Wiley-VCH in collaboration with Hindawi.
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Le Règne Animal
Le Règne Animal is the most famous work of the French naturalist Georges Cuvier.
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Limacina helicina
Limacina helicina is a species of small swimming planktonic sea snail in the family Limacinidae, which belong to the group commonly known as sea butterflies (Thecosomata).
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Limacinidae
The Limacinidae are a family of small sea snails, pteropods, pelagic marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Thecosomata (sea butterflies). Pteropoda and Limacinidae are Euopisthobranchia.
Lorenz Oken
Lorenz Oken (1 August 1779 – 11 August 1851) was a German naturalist, botanist, biologist, and ornithologist.
Louis François Auguste Souleyet
Louis François Auguste Souleyet (8 January 1811 – 7 October 1852) was a French zoologist, malacologist and naval surgeon.
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Marine life
Marine life, sea life, or ocean life is the plants, animals, and other organisms that live in the salt water of seas or oceans, or the brackish water of coastal estuaries.
Megabat
Megabats constitute the family Pteropodidae of the order Chiroptera (bats).
Molecular phylogenetics
Molecular phylogenetics is the branch of phylogeny that analyzes genetic, hereditary molecular differences, predominantly in DNA sequences, to gain information on an organism's evolutionary relationships.
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Monophyly
In biological cladistics for the classification of organisms, monophyly is the condition of a taxonomic grouping being a clade – that is, a grouping of taxa which meets these criteria.
Nudibranch
Nudibranchs belong to the order Nudibranchia, a group of soft-bodied marine gastropod molluscs that shed their shells after their larval stage.
Ocean acidification
Ocean acidification is the ongoing decrease in the pH of the Earth's ocean.
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Opisthobranchia
Opisthobranchs is a now informal name for a large and diverse group of specialized complex gastropods which used to be united in the subclass Opisthobranchia. Pteropoda and Opisthobranchia are Obsolete gastropod taxa.
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Order (biology)
Order (ordo) is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.
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Organisms Diversity & Evolution
Organisms Diversity & Evolution is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering various aspects of biodiversity and evolution of organisms.
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Paraphyly
Paraphyly is a taxonomic term describing a grouping that consists of the grouping's last common ancestor and some but not all of its descendant lineages.
Parapodium
In invertebrates, the term parapodium (Gr. para, beyond or beside + podia, feet;: parapodia) refers to lateral outgrowths or protrusions from the body.
Pelagic zone
The pelagic zone consists of the water column of the open ocean and can be further divided into regions by depth.
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Phylliroe
Phylliroe is a genus of average sized (up to), highly transparent pelagic nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the order Opisthobranchia, that consists of two known species.
Pierre André Latreille
Pierre André Latreille (29 November 1762 – 6 February 1833) was a French zoologist, specialising in arthropods.
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PLOS One
PLOS One (stylized PLOS ONE, and formerly PLoS ONE) is a peer-reviewed open access mega journal published by the Public Library of Science (PLOS) since 2006.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (often abbreviated PNAS or PNAS USA) is a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary scientific journal.
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Pterosaur
Pterosaurs (from Greek pteron and sauros, meaning "wing lizard") are an extinct clade of flying reptiles in the order Pterosauria.
Pterotracheoidea
The Pterotracheoidea is, according to the Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005), a taxonomic superfamily of sea snails or sea slugs, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha.
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San Juan Islands
The San Juan Islands is an archipelago in the Pacific Northwest of the United States between the U.S. state of Washington and Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
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Sander Rang
Sander Rang or Paul Charles Leonard Alexander Rang (1793, Utrecht -1844, Mayotte) was a French conchologist and interpreter of Arabic texts.
Sea angel
Sea angels (clade Gymnosomata) are a large group of small free-swimming sea slugs, not to be confused with Cnidarians (Jellyfish and other similar creatures), classified into six different families. Pteropoda and sea angel are Euopisthobranchia.
Sea butterfly
The Thecosomata (collective/plural: thecosomes, meaning "case/shell-body"), or sea butterflies, are a taxonomic suborder of small, pelagic, free-swimming sea snails known as holoplanktonic opisthobranch gastropod mollusks, in the order Pteropoda (also included within the informal group Opisthobranchia). Pteropoda and sea butterfly are Euopisthobranchia.
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Sea slug
Sea slug is a common name for some marine invertebrates with varying levels of resemblance to terrestrial slugs.
Sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone.
Sister group
In phylogenetics, a sister group or sister taxon, also called an adelphotaxon, comprises the closest relative(s) of another given unit in an evolutionary tree.
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Theropoda
Theropoda (from ancient Greek whose members are known as theropods, is a dinosaur clade that is characterized by hollow bones and three toes and claws on each limb. Theropods are generally classed as a group of saurischian dinosaurs. They were ancestrally carnivorous, although a number of theropod groups evolved to become herbivores and omnivores.
William Bullock Clark
William Bullock Clark (December 15, 1860 – July 27, 1917), was an American geologist.
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See also
Euopisthobranchia
- Aglajidae
- Akeridae
- Anaspidea
- Aplysiida
- Aplysiidae
- Bullidae
- Cavolinioidea
- Cephalaspidea
- Cliidae
- Clionidae
- Clionoidea
- Cliopsidae
- Cylichnidae
- Cymbuliidae
- Cymbulioidea
- Desmopteridae
- Diaphanidae
- Diaphanoidea
- Euopisthobranchia
- Gastropteridae
- Haminoeidae
- Haminoeoidea
- Hydromyles globulosus
- Hydromyloidea
- Ilbiidae
- Laginiopsidae
- Limacinidae
- Limacinoidea
- Notobranchaeidae
- Opaline gland
- Philinidae
- Philinoglossidae
- Philinoidea
- Plusculidae
- Pneumodermatidae
- Praecuvierinidae
- Pteropoda
- Retusidae
- Runcinidae
- Runcinoidea
- Scaphandridae
- Sea angel
- Sea butterfly
- Sphaerocinidae
- Tylodinidae
- Umbraculidae
- Umbraculoidea
Obsolete gastropod taxa
- Apogastropoda
- Archaeogastropoda
- Basommatophora
- Cerithiimorpha
- Cinguloterebra
- Eogastropoda
- Euomphalina
- Fusus
- Hedylopsoidea
- Heterostropha
- Homoiodorididae
- Limapontioidea
- Mesogastropoda
- Metarminoidea
- Neotaenioglossa
- Neritoida
- Notaspidea
- Opisthobranchia
- Orthogastropoda
- Plakobranchacea
- Pleurotomariacea
- Prosobranchia
- Pteropoda
- Pulmonata
- Sigmurethra
- Strubellioidea
- Tectibranchia
- Trochina
- Turbinoidea
- Tylotiella
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pteropoda
Also known as Pteropod, Pteropods.
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