Pectinibranchia
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Pectinibranchia
[‚pek·tə·nə′braŋ·kē·ə] (invertebrate zoology)
An order of gastropod mollusks which contains many families of snails; respiration is by means of ctenidia, the nervous system is not concentrated, and sexes are separate.
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