Chapter 34- Coelomate Invertebrates Flashcards
What is in Phylum Mollusca
Snails, slugs, clams, octopuses
What is the viceral mass
Located in mollusks, it is above their foot, and contains most organs
Mantle?
Mollusks
- tissue surrounding mollusc body
- secretes shell if one
Foot?
Mollusks
-primary means of locomotion for many
Ctenida?
Gills in aquatic mollusks
-filter food in most bivalves
Shell
Mollusks
- protects against predators and adverse environments
- not essential
Radula?
Mollusks
-rasping tongue like structure used in feeding
What type of circulatory system do Mollusks have?
Open circulatory system
-except for cephalopods
What are Polyplacophora
Class of Mollusks
- Chitons
- oval bodies and overlapping dorsal plates
What are Gastropods
Class Gastropoda of Mollusks
-limpets, snails, slugs
single shell
have torsion-digestive tract faces same direction(mouth and anus)
What are nudibranches
class gastropoda
- active predators
- take nematocytes from cnidarians and use them on their own surface
Bivalves?
Class Bivalvia-phylum Molluska
clams, scallops, mussels, oysters
no distinct head
2 shells hinged together
Cephalopoda?
Class of phylum Mollusca
- active predators
- closed circulatory system
- octopuses etc.
- jet propulsion using siphon
What does Gonochoric mean?
Separate sexes in species
Phylum Nemertea?
long worms similar to flatworms
- have complete digestive tract
- Gonochoric with sexual reproduction