lab quiz 4 Flashcards
gills have
many thin folded layers, cilia on surface, and two blood vessels going in opposite directions
mollusk basic parts
shell, mantle, mantle cavity, ventral foot, dorsal ventral mass, radula
shell
Composed of calcium carbonate; provides
protection for these soft bodied animals
mantle
thin layer of tissue covers the visceral mass on both
sides, lies between the visceral mass and the shell; it secretes the shell
mantle cavity
Space between visceral mass and mantle, in many molluscs the gills are suspended here
ventral foot
Muscular; used for locomotion in generalized mollusc
dorsal ventral mass
Location of digestive, reproductive, excretory organs—makes sense that these soft organs would be located dorsally under the shell for protection, mollusca means “soft bodied
radula
A toothed tongue; it scrapes food, like algae, off surfaces and/or shreds food into smaller pieces
hemoceol
main body cavity in mollusc and arthropods
coelom in mollusc
reduced to cavity just around the heart.
closed circulatory system
cephalopod circulatory system
open circulatory system
non cephalopod molluscs circulatory system and arthropod circulatory system
kidney
excretory system of molluscs
kidney steps
- unselective filtration of coelomic fluid 2. selective reabsorption 3. excretion
ammonia and uric acid
aquatic and terrestrial nitrogenous waste in molluscs
Polyplacophora
chitons
gastropoda
slugs and snails
bivalvia
clams, mussels, scallops, oysters
cephalopoda
squid, octopus, cuttlefish, nautilus
mollusc and arthropod digestive tract
complete digestive tract
bivalve feeding strategy
active suspension feeding
bivalve nervous system
less centralized and less cephalized