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Subclass · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Heterobranchia

WoRMS 14712key worms:14712
Silhouette · Trond Oskars · CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Scaphander lignarius

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Heterobranchia
Photo · Shaun Lee · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Heterobranchia, the heterobranchs, is a taxonomic clade of snails and slugs, which includes marine, aquatic, and terrestrial gastropod molluscs.W CalCOFI holds 1,216 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2010, across 3 taxa under it.R

1,216
observations
3,051
records
1951–2010
years
1
datasets
0
species under it

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 1 taxon

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:14712")