Other Molluscan Classes

Question 1

What does Scaphopoda mean?

Answer 1

boat foot

Question 2

What are the characteristics of the class Scaphopoda?

Answer 2

body in tubular shell, tentacles, no head and marine

Question 3

What does Monoplacophora mean?

Answer 3

one plate to bear

Question 4

What are the characteristics of the class Monoplacophora ?

Answer 4

single arched shell, broad flat foot. & repeated pairs of gills and foot retractor muscles

Question 5

What does Aplacophora mean?

Answer 5

without a plate to bear

Question 6

What are the characteristics of the class Aplacophora

Answer 6

• no nephridia, no radula, no shell
  -crawl on ventral surface