Chap 21-22 Flashcards
Mollusk use a _____ for locomotion
Foot
Contains a mollusk’s internal organs
Visceral hump
A skin like organ which covers the visceral hump
Mantle
Mollusk class which includes snails, slugs, and whelk
Gastropods
Mollusk class which includes clam, mussel, oyster, and scallop
Bivalves
Mollusk class which includes squid, octopus, cuttlefish, and chambered nautilus
Cephalopods
Two-shelled mollusks
Bivalves
Hold together the the two shells of a bivalve
Adductor muscles
Takes water into the mantle cavity to the gills
Incurrent siphon
In mollusks, water passes out through
Excurrent siphon
Stomach-footed Mollusks
Gastropods
Gastropods which look like snails but lack a shell
Slugs
Marine slugs
Nudibranches
A snail’s rough, file like organ that scrapes food and carries it like a conveyor belt into the digestive tract
Radula
Head-foot Mollusks
Cephalopods
The largest invertebrate
The giant squid
Largest group of water animals on earth
Mollusks