Molluscs/Echinodermata Flashcards
Mantle
Two fields of skins, outgrowths dorsal body wall
Visceral Mass
Contains digestive, circumatory, respiratory, and reproductive organs
Mantle cavity
Space between mantle + body wall
Protective shell is secreted by…
Mantle over visceral mass + head foot
Radula
Rasping, protrusible tonguelike organ found in all mollusks
Ribbonlike membrane where rows of tiny teeth are
Foot
Ventral, solelike structure
Waves of muscular contraction effects a creeping motion
Mantle + Mantle cavity (functions)
Houses respiratory organs
Surface serves for gaseous exchange
Mollusc Difinitive Traits
Radula
Foot
Mantle
Moll. Circulatory
Open circulatory w pumping heart, blood vessels
ceph. Have closed blood system w heart, vessels, capillaries
Moll. Nervous
Pairs of ganglia w connecting nerve cords
Specialized sense organs
Moll. Reproductive
Dioecious (snails mono)
Sexual
Ceph. Respiration
Thru body surface (usually mantle) and gills or lungs
Nitrogenous waste»_space;> kidney
Ctenidea
Flat gills found in mantle cavity
Absorb oxygen from water
Moll. trochophore
Minute, transluscent top-shaped, prominent circletts of cilia found in molluscs
Moll. veliger
Free swimmig larva
Polyplacophora
Cling onto rocks, use radula to scrape algae and plant material
Gastropoda
Snails & Slugs
Gastropoda Torsion
Process that moves mantle cavity in front of the body
Uneven growth of right & left muscles that attach shell to foot & differences in muscle contractions on sides of body
Causes foiling
Gastropoda foiling
Wastes may be washed back over the gills
Better water sampling
Head can be drawn into shell
Gastropoda Coiling
Spiral winding, coiling of shell & visceral bump
BILATERAL ASYMMETRY
Pelecypoda
Clams, oysters, mussels, scallops
“Bivalves”
Soft body protected by 2 hard shells hinged together
Bivalve
2 shells held together by hinge ligament
Adductor muscles work in opposition to the hinge ligament to draw valves together
Cephalopoda
"Head footed" Octopus cuttlefish squid Most well developed nervous system Intelligent Most have tentacles
Echinodermata
Spiny skinned