List of marine heterobranch gastropods of South Africa explained

The list of marine heterobranch gastropods of South Africa is a list of saltwater mollusc species that form a part of the molluscan fauna of South Africa. This list does not include the land or freshwater molluscs.

This is a sub-list of the list of marine gastropods of South Africa, which is in turn a sub-list of the list of marine molluscs of South Africa.

Heterobranchia

Architectonicidae

Siphonariidae - False limpets

Ringiculidae

Acteonidae

Bullinidae

Hydatinidae

Cylichnidae

Retusidae

Philinidae

Gastropteridae

Aglajidae

Haminoeidae

Runcinidae

Bullidae

Cavoliniidae

Peraclididae

Cymbuliidae

Desmopteridae

Gymnosomata

Clionidae

Pneumodermatidae

Anaspidea

Akeridae

Aplysiidae

Sacoglossa

Oxynoidae

Juliidae

Volvatellidae

Placobranchidae

Limapontiidae

Caliphyllidae

Hermaeidae

Notaspidea

Umbraculidae

Pleurobranchidae

Nudibranchia - Nudibranchs

Bathydorididae

Dorididae

The following four species are listed as incertae sedis by Gosliner:

Actinocyclidae

Chromodorididae

Discodorididae

Phyllidiidae

Dendrodorididae

Mandeliidae

Onchidorididae

Corambidae

Goniodorididae

Polyceridae

Aegiridae

Gymnodorididae

Hexabranchidae

Okadaiidae

Charcotiidae

Dotidae

Embletoniidae

Proctonotidae

Arminidae

Tritoniidae

Aranucidae

Bornellidae

Dendronotidae

Scyllaeidae

Tethydidae

Flabellinidae

Fionidae

Eubranchidae

Tergipedidae

Aeolidiidae

Facelinidae

Glaucidae

Family ?

Cavoliniidae

Pulmonata

Onchidiidae

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