Lecture 13 Flashcards
Gastropods
- coelomate bilaterians
- gills in mantle cavity
- ventral creeping foot
- have terminal mouth with chitinous radula
- coelom scanty
- circulation open
- cephalized, nerve cords with nerve ring or brain
- mantle secretes calcareous shell
- extremely abundant
Radula
- filter feeding apparatus
- rasping organ that reduces any prey to small fragments passed to the pharynx
Foot
- attaches the animal firmly to the substrate (during locomotion or at rest)
- moves the animal by waves of muscular contraction
Foot: During locomotive
weak adhesive force needed
- gel secreted by foot, provides no strength in shear but enables to adhere to the substrate by suction
Foot: At rest
- requires strong adhesive force
- secreted gel acts as a glue bonding the foot firmly to the substrate
- Gel consists of polymers
Mantle and shell
- tough organic outer layer
- shell is secreted by mantle
- calcium is very abundant (make shell)
3 layers of shell
Periostracum (Outermost)
Prismatic (Middle)
Nacreous (innermost)
Periostracum
tough, organic, made of chitin
- where growth occurs
Prismatic
calcium carbonate as calcite
nacreous
calcium carbonate as aragonite
Shell - Columella
elongated cone wound into a spiral around a central axis
an elongated uncoiled shell would be impossible to carry because of its high centre of gravity
Nervous System - Mollusca
nervous system consists of ganglia and nerve cords
brain consists of 3 pairs of ganglia located close to the oesophagus
1. Cerebral ganglia
2. Pedal ganglia
3. Pleural ganglia
Mollusca - Cerebral ganglia
located above the oesophagus, supply nerves to eyes, tentacles and other (in head)
Mollusca - Pedal ganglia
Supply nerves to the foot muscles
Mollusca - Pleural ganglia
supply nerves to the mantle cavity, run above and below the oesophagus to connect the right and left cerebral and pedal ganglia to each other
Buccal Ganglia
supply nerves to the mouth and radula
Resting and action potential
worked out in squid giant axon
Nerves
- very large axons
- sponges are the only that do not have nervous system
- ganglia: local concentration of nerve tissues
- Nerve net: sea anemone
- Ganglia and nerves: earthworm and squids
- CNS and PNS: humans
- Neurons vary in size and shape depending on function