Classification

 

Image of T. vulgata from jaxshells.org

Domain: Eukarya
       
Kingdom: Animalia
            This kingdom includes all animals that are multicellular heterotrophs.

Phylum: Mollusca
    This phyla (the "soft bodied"), being one of the most diverse phylum in the kingdom Animalia,   includes most of the identifiable invertebrates, including the snails. (Hickman, 2009)

Class: Gastropoda
    Gastropoda, or "stomach foot", is the largest class of Mollusca, including organisms that have a muscular foot, coiled shell, visceral mass and is characterized by torsion, the 180 degree rotation of the visceral mass and mantle. (Hickman, 2009)

Order: Stylommatorpha
    This order includes pulmonate gastropods that have two pairs of invaginable tentacles.  The eyes are on the anterior pair of tentacles.

Family: Polygyridae
    This family contains organisms with ribbed jaws, no dart apparatus and muscles allowing the eyes of the snail to be retracted.

Genus: Triodopsis
    Triodopsis means "three toothed" and organisms in the genus Triodopsis contain flat spiral shells.

Species: Triodopsis vulgata
    The genus, meaning "three toothed" and species, meaning "dished", put together make the common name of this species, Dished Threetooth.

 

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