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Order Gymnosomata



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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Gymnosomata
Members of this Order

These unusual snails are pelagic, shell-less carnivores, equipped with swimming parapoda, strong jaws and grasping tentacles, often with suckers resembling those of cephalopods.

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