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plural opisthobranchs
(zoology) A gastropod with gills behind the heart, formerly thought to belong to a single group.
not comparable
(of gills) Placed behind the heart. examples
(of a gastropod) Having gills placed behind the heart. quotations examples
For example, the antitumour depsipeptide kahalalide F was isolated from the opisthobranch mollusc Elysia rufescens, and is used by both the mollusc and its dietary alga Bryopsis spp.
2016 January 21, “Choose Your Weaponry: Selective Storage of a Single Toxic Compound, Latrunculin A, by Closely Related Nudibranch Molluscs”, in PLOS ONE