GENERAL HISTOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Class Gastropoda. Gastropods are the most diverse group of molluscs (Fig. 3.59). The ones we usually think of are snails and slugs.

Detailed explanation-2: -Gastropoda (previously known as univalves and sometimes spelled “Gasteropoda") are a major part of the phylum Mollusca, and are the most highly diversified class in the phylum, with 65, 000 to 80, 000 living snail and slug species.

Detailed explanation-3: -Gastropods are a highly diverse Class of molluscs that include limpets, whelks, periwinkles, abalones, venomous cone shells, and the shell-less nudibranchs, sea slugs and sea hares.

Detailed explanation-4: -Snails and slugs are known as gastropods, which mean ‘stomach foot’. This describes the way in which the body and internal organs of slugs and snails has been twisted back so that the stomach lies above the large fleshy foot of these animals.