Quiz 1 Flashcards
Phylum Mollusca
soft bodied, bilateral animals with a mantle, usually with a calcareous shell and a radula
Class Polyplacophora
possessing many (8) shells; chitons
Class Bivalvia
Two valves; clams, muscles, oysters, scallops
Class Scaphopoda
“bowl foot”; tusk or tooth shell
Class Gastropoda
“stomach foot”; snails, slugs, sea hares
Class Cephalopoda
“head foot”; nautiloids, squids, cuttlefish, octopods
Mantle
Fleshy “skin”, secretes shell; unique to mollusk
Foot
locomotive, burrowing
Radula
rasping feeding organ (tongue with teeth)
Cryptochiton
Phylum Mollusca
Class Polyplacophora
Amblema
Phylum Mollusca
Class Bivalvia
dissected
Pecten
Phylum Mollusca
Class Bivalvia
Scallop
Teredo
Phylum Mollusca
Class Bivalvia
Shipworm
Tridacna
Phylum Mollusca
Class Bivalvia
Pacific Giant Clam
Dentalium
Phylum Mollusca
Class Scaphopoda