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from The Century Dictionary.
- A group of prosobranchiate gastropods, approximately equivalent to Scutibranchia, Rhipidoglossa, or Chiastoneura. It includes such families as Fissurellidæ, Haliotidæ, etc. Also
Aspidobranchiata .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) A group of Gastropoda, with limpetlike shells, including the abalone shells and keyhole limpets.
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