Phylum Mollusca Flashcards
Common name
Mollusk
Soft body
Symmetry
Bilateral- trophoblastic
Organ systems
Complete digestive system
Open circulatory system
Cephalopods have complete CS
Vessels in gills
Reduced eucoelomate
Diversity
Chitons
Snails
Cephalopods
Bivalves
8 classes
Structure
Muscular foot
Visceral mass
Mantle
Gills
Radula
Trocophor -> veliger
Shells
Calcium carbonate CaCo3
Mantle deposits
Cephalopods don’t have shell
Shells provide fossil record and index
Radula
Rasping and drilling tounge
Venomous harpoons modified to beak
Polyplacopora
Marine chitons
8 plates for dorsal shell
Gastropoda
“Stomach foot”
Snails, slugs, nudibranches
Marine, freshwater, and terrestrial
Torsion (twisting)
Operculum
Bivalve
“Two halves”
Oysters, clams, muscles, scallops
Filter feeders
Cephalopods
“Head foot”
Squid, octopus, cuttlefish, nautiluses
Reduced shell, large complex eye, complex nervous system, closed circulatory system
Intelligence