Phylum Mollusca

Question 1

Root name

Answer 1

Soft bodied

Question 2

Symmetry?

Answer 2

Usually bilateral except oysters

Question 3

Blastopore

Answer 3

Protostomate

Question 4

Coelom?

Answer 4

True coelom

Question 5

Digestive?

Answer 5

Complete

Question 6

What do they have in common?

Answer 6

Mantle and she’ll

Question 7

Why are they considered lophotrochozoans?

Answer 7

Bc they are bilaterally symmetry

Question 8

What classes are in this phylum?

Answer 8

Bivalves- clam, oyster, mussels,scallops
Gastropoda- snails, slugs
Scaphopoda- tusk shell
Polyplacophora- chitins 
Cephalopoda- squid, octopus

Question 9

Root name of bivalvia

Answer 9

Two halves

Question 10

What do you eat in mussels,clams,oysters, and scallops

Answer 10

You eat the visceral mass except in scallops you eat the adductor muscle

Question 11

Valve shells

Answer 11

Mussels- mirror images
Clams- mirror images
Oysters- one is flatter than the other
Scallops- usually mirror image, sometimes one is flatter than the other

Question 12

Class Gastropoda root name?

Answer 12

Stomach foot

Question 13

What kind of animals? In Gastropoda

Answer 13

Snails and slugs

Question 14

Class scaphopoda root name

Answer 14

Shovel foot

Question 15

What animals are in scaphopoda?

Answer 15

Tooth or tusk shell

Question 16

Class polyplacophora root name?

Answer 16

Poly- many

Placophora- plate bearing

Question 17

What kind of animals are in polyplacophora ?

Answer 17

Chitons

Question 18

What is the root name of cephalopoda?

Answer 18

Head foot

Question 19

What kind of animals are in cephalopoda ?

Answer 19

Ammonites, nautiluses, squid, cuttlefish, octopus