PROSOBRANCHIA Milne-Edwards, 1848
(operculate molluscs)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Subclass	PROSOBRANCHIA (operculate molluscs)
Class	GASTROPODA (slugs and snails)
Phylum	MOLLUSCA (slugs, snails, bivalves, octopus, sea slugs)
Superphylum	LOPHOTROCHOZOA (molluscs and relatives)
Clade	Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom	EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom	ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

PROSOBRANCHIA is also a member of:
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Mollusca)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
()	Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland		Marine Snails	www.conchsoc.org/groupbrowser/Marine%20snail
()	Crothers, J.H.	2003	Rocky Shore Snails as Material for Projects (with a Key for their Identification)	Field Studies 10: 601-634.
	Fretter, V. & Graham, A.	1978	The prosobranch molluscs of Britain and Denmark: Part 4 - Marine Rissoacea	J. Mollus. Stud. Supplement 6.
	Fretter, V. & Graham, A.		The prosobranch molluscs of Britain and Denmark: Part 1 — Pleurotomariacea, Fissurellacea and Patellacea	J. Mollus. Stud. Supplement 1.
	Fretter, V. & Graham, A.		The prosobranch molluscs of Britain and Denmark: Part 2 — Trochacea	J. Mollus. Stud. Supplement 3.
	Fretter, V. & Graham, A.		The prosobranch molluscs of Britain and Denmark: Part 3 — Neritacea, Viviparacea, Valvatacea, Terrestrial and Freshwater Littorinacea and Rissoacea	J. Mollus. Stud. Supplement 5.
	Fretter, V. & Graham, A.		The prosobranch molluscs of Britain and Denmark: Part 5 — Marine Littorinacea	J. Mollus. Stud. Supplement 7.
	Fretter, V. & Graham, A.		The prosobranch molluscs of Britain and Denmark: Part 6 — Cerithiacea, Strombacea, Hipponicacea, Calyptraeacea, Lamellariacea, Cypraeacea, Naticacea, Tonnacea, Heteropoda	J. Mollus. Stud. Supplement 9.
	Fretter, V. & Graham, A.		The prosobranch molluscs of Britain and Denmark: Part 7 — Heterogastropoda (Cerithiopsacea, Triforacea, Epitoniacea, Eulimacea	J. Mollus. Stud. Supplement 11.
()	Graham, A.	1988	Prosobranch and Pyramidellid Gastropods: Keys and notes for the identification of the species	Synopses of the British Fauna (New Series), 2, ed 2 edition, 662pp, The Linnean Society of London
()	Graham, A.	1971	* British Prosobranch and other operculate gastropod molluscs *(Superseded)	Synopses of the British Fauna (New Series), 2, ed 1 edition, 112pp, The Linnean Society of London
()	Pfleger, V.	1998	A Field Guide in Colour to Molluscs	English edition edition, 216pp, Blitz
Terrestrial And Freshwater
()	Pfegler, V. & Chatfield, J.	1988	A Guide to Snails of Britain and Europe	216pp, Hamlyn

PROSOBRANCHIA (operculate molluscs) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

GASTROPODA
(slugs and snails)

MOLLUSCA
(slugs, snails, bivalves, octopus, sea slugs)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

NBN

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for PROSOBRANCHIA (operculate molluscs)

BioInfo

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 1 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for PROSOBRANCHIA (operculate molluscs)

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