Bubble Snails and Allies
Cephalaspidea
The clade Cephalaspidea, also known as the headshield slugs and bubble snails, is a major taxon of sea slugs and bubble snails, marine gastropod mollusks within the larger clade Euopisthobranchia. Bubble shells is another common name for these families of marine gastropods, some of which have thin bubble-like shells. This clade contains more than 600 species.
8 branches of this order, most-observed first
Philinoidea
superfamilyPhilinoidea
Haminoeoidea
superfamilyHaminoeoidea
Bulloidea
superfamilyBulloidea
Cylichnoidea
superfamilyCylichnoidea
Noalda
genusNoalda
Micratys
genusMicratys
Cylichnium
genusCylichnium
Newnesioidea
superfamilyNewnesioidea
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Cephalaspidea in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 49784.