ch21 Flashcards
largest group of water animals
Mollusks
3 parts of Mollusks
Foot
Visceral hump
Mantle
two-shelled mollusks
Bival
edible mollusk
Shellfish
the substance from which the pearly layer is formed
Nacre
formed by nacre. Sometimes valuable.
Pearl
hold the two shells of a bivalve
Adductor muscles
A clam uses its foot for burrowing very quickly into the sand
Locomotion
mollusks have an ____ circulatory system
Open
snails, slugs, whelks, abalones, conchs, cowries, and murexes
Gastropods
another name for gastropods because of their single shell
Univalves
“right-handed” shells
Dextral
“left-handed” shells
Sinistral
Gastropods without shells
Slugs
Nudibranchs
Economic importance of gastropods
clean up organic debris and because they commonly serve as food for man, fish, and birds
Operculum function (for shell)
covers shell
scrapes food and carries it into the digestive tract
Radula
Head-Foot Mollusks
Cephalopods
Cephalopod noted for its ability to move by “jet propulsion”
Squid
gives squids jet propulsion
Siphon
Cephalopods have a _____ circulatory system
closed
Cephalopods
squids
octopus
nautilus
only cephalopod with an external shell
Nautilus
the angles of a nautilus chamber form what is referred to as a _______ spiral
Logarithmic spiral