Cardiapoda
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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.
[edit] Species
- 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
[edit] References
- Tree of Life Cardiapoda
- Cardiapoda (TSN 72866). Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
