Mollusks and Annelids Flashcards
What animals are in Phylum Molusca?
snails, slugs, clams, scallops, oysters, squid, and octopuses
Phylogenetically, mollusks share a common ancestor with __________, and both exhibit ________ ________.
Also both phyla include representatives with a __________-_________ larval stage called a ____________.
annelids, spiral cleavage
free-swimming, trochophore
What is the basic body plan of a Chitons (Mollusk)?
- muscular foot
- gills
What is the basic body plan of a Gastropods-snail (mollusk)?
- snails don’t have gills
- shell, skin is highly vascularized like a lung
What is the basic body plan of a Cephalopods (mollusk)?
- radula
- 8 legs, 2 tenticls for moving foot
What is a polyplacophora: chitons?
inter-tidal marine organisms that rasp algae from rocks
Class Gastropoda includes the animals…?
snails, slugs, nudibranchs
What is Torsion in Snail Shells?
- side view of the snail, poops out near its head
- viscera in snails is rotated 180 degrees
What is coiling in Snail Shells doing for it?
-gives the animal a better sense of gravity is stronger with it coiled.
what are the characteristics of Class Bivalvia?
- most are sedentary filter feeders that depend on ciliary action of gills to bring in food.
- no radula and little cephalization
- movement via the muscular foot
What are the characteristics of Class Cephalopoda?
- active marine predators with closed circulatory systems(the others don’t have this!)
- All the wiring is behind the eye, retina first and is more highly evolved that our eye.
- NO larval stages
- A siphon is used for jet propulsion
What is the most ancient (chambered mollusk)?
Nautilus
What has a very sophisticated brain? and what kind of shell does it have?/
Cuttlefish
intermediate shell
What has a slightly smaller shell than a cuttlefish, and what specialization does it have?
Squid
helps in expelling water
What has no shell, and is very smart learning capacity to open a crab jar? What else an its body do?
Octopus
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