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| | COA :: Conchology |
 | | Thus, an increasing number of biologists, prefer to use prosobranch as a descriptive term, rather than as the name of a taxon. |
 | | Some workers restrict the archaeogastropods to the Pleurotomarioidea, Fissurelloidea, and Trochoidea, excluding the Cocculiniformia, and Patellogastropoda, others prefer the name Vetigastropoda for this group, to avoid confusion between a narrowly and a broadly defined Archaeogastropoda. |
 | | As shown in an evolutionary tree, there are many different major lineages of gastropods. |
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