Molluscs 🐚🦪 Flashcards
1
Q
What does Bivalvia mean?
A
2 shells
2
Q
What does Cephopoda mean?
A
Head foot
3
Q
What does Gastropoda mean?
A
Stomach foot
4
Q
Aplacophora mean?
A
No shell
5
Q
Monoplacophora?
A
Singal external shell
6
Q
Scaphopoda??
A
Tusk shell
7
Q
Polyplacophora???
A
Bearing many plates
8
Q
What’s the three main classes?
A
Bivalves
Cephalopods
Gastropoda
9
Q
What’s in the visceral mass
A
Digestive nervous excretory reproductive respiratory
10
Q
What is a radula?
A
Tongue like organ
Bears chitnous
11
Q
What is the mantle??
A
Outer most part of the mollusc
Used to secrete a hard calcium carbonate shell
12
Q
Characteristics of a mollusc 🦑
A
Muscular foot
Visceral mass
Mantle
13
Q
What is the muscular foot used for??
A
Locomotion( movement )
Anchorage
14
Q
What can a muscular foot do?
A
Retractable (bring in)
Extendable ( go out)
