Three truths
- Timed
- Branched off about 540 million years ago · the last 13% of life's story
- Named
- ≈65,000 named living species · 3.8% of all named
- Weighed
- Part of All other animals (total minus the parts above) (≈0.13 Gt C), not measured separately.
Eukaryotes · animals
Snails and slugs
Living · roughly 65,000 described species
A full profile for this group has not been written yet. Its place in the tree and its dates are shown below.
Snails and slugs, on land, in rivers and in the sea.
- Branched off
- About 540 million years ago (approximate)
- Parent lineage
- Molluscs
Classification
Sources
- TimeTree: the timescale of life · TimeTree
- Open Tree of Life · Open Tree of Life
- Tree of Life Web Project · Tree of Life Web Project