Gastropoda

class of molluscs
Taxon taxon Q4867740
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Summary

Gastropoda is a taxon[1]. Gastropoda ranks in the top 0.37% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,963 views/month, #721 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: class[3]
  • Parent taxon: Mollusca[4]
  • Taxon name: Gastropoda[5]
  • Subclass of: Mollusca[6]
  • Commons category: Gastropoda[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Gastropods[8]
  • Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[9], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[12], Yuzhakov Big Encyclopedia[13]
  • Taxon common name: Slakken[14], snegler[15], polži[16], Schnecken[17]
  • Different from: snail[18]
  • Wikimedia outline: outline of gastropods[19]

Body

Identifiers

Gastropoda's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 47114[20]. Gastropoda's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 6448[21]. Gastropoda's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 2366[22]. Gastropoda's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 225[23]. Gastropoda's ITIS TSN is recorded as 69459[24].

Discovery and Description

Things named for Gastropoda include Snail Tower[25], an apartment building[26], in Estonia[27], founded in 2008[28].

Why It Matters

Gastropoda has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[29] Gastropoda is known by 62 alternative names across languages and contexts.[30]

Entities named for Gastropoda include Snail Tower[25], an apartment building[26], in Estonia[27], founded in 2008[28].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Q24499621. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [21] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [24] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [23] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [14] ↑ . Nederlands Soortenregister. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [15] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [17] ↑ . Trivialnamen für Mollusken des Meeres und Brackwassers in Deutschland (Polyplacophora, Gastropoda, Bivalvia, Scaphopoda et Cephalopoda). wikidata.org.
  20. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [26] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [27] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [28] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [29] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [30] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0211168-plzi
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0211168-plzi, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259496|batch #259496]]"
  2. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Taxon rank → class
    Described by source → Otto's encyclopedia, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary +3
    Subclass of → —
    Instance of → taxon
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ Yso id: 7674, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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