Land snails are a polyphyletic group comprising at least ten independent evolutionary transitions to terrestrial life & x28;the last common ancestor of all gastropods was marine& x29;.[1][2][3][4][5] The majority of land snails are pulmonates that have a lung and breathe air. Most of the non-pulmonate land snails belong to lineages in the Caenogastropoda, and tend to have a gill and an operculum.
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