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ctenidiobranchiata

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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A suborder or superfamily of zygobranchiate gastropods, having paired ctenidia functioning as gills. It contains the Haliotidæ and Fissurellidæ, or seaears and keyhole-limpets.
  • A suborder of palliate or tectibranchiate opisthobranchiate gastropods, containing those which retain the ctenidia as functional gills, as the Tornatellidæ, Bullidæ, Aplysiidæ, etc.

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