Cardiapoda placenta

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Cardiapoda placenta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropod
Subclass: Orthogastropoda
Superorder: Caenogastropoda
Order: Sorbeoconcha
Suborder: Hypsogastropoda
Infraorder: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Carinarioidea
Family: Carinariidae
Genus: Cardiapoda
Species: C. placenta
Binomial name
Cardiapoda placenta
(Lesson, 1830)

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.

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