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Phylum: Mollusca

Mollusks
 Mollusks are soft-bodied animals that usually
have an internal or external shell.
 Has ctenida, nephridiopores and gonotopores
located on the mantle cavity.
 Date back from Cambrian Period.
 Metanerphridia
 Schizocoelous protostomes.
 Can be monoecious or dioecious.
Body Plan – 4 parts
 1. foot
 2. mantle
 3. shell
 4. visceral mass
Feeding
 Feeding – radula –
ribbon of teeth
 Others are filter feeders
using an incurrent and
excurrent siphon
Respiration and Circulation
 Respiration – gills
 Circulation - Open circulatory system – heart
and open sinuses. Open circulatory system
works for slow moving creatures
 Closed circulatory system – blood is contained
in veins and arteries. Octopi and squid
 Taxonomic Summary
 Class Polyplacophora
 Class Gastropoda
 Class Bivalvia
 Class Scaphopoda
 Class Cephalopoda
 Class Claudofaveata
 Class Solenogastres
 Class Monoplacophora
Class Polyplacaphora
Also known as chitons.
Bilaterally symmetrical.

Broad ventral foot and eight


overlapping plates
Uses its radula for feeding.

Mouth is anterior and anus is


posterior, linear
digestive tract.
 Head small, without eyes and tentacles.
 The shell is composed of a longitudinal series
of 8 plates.
 The foot is flat and ventral.
 The radula is well developed.
 Respiration by 8 to 60 pairs of gills.
Cryptochiton stelleri
 also known as the giant
western fiery chiton or
gumboot chiton.
 the largest of the chitons.
 growing to 36 cm (14 in)
and over 2 kg (4.4 lb).
Cryptoplax larvaeformis
 Also known as WORM
CHITON.
 worm-like appearance.
 Fast moving.
 nocturnally active and
cryptic.
Class Scaphopoda
 Ctenidia is absent.
 Captacula.
 Has shell opening.
Dentalium
 Tooth shell or Elephant’s tusk shell.
 Use as medicine during 18th century.
 Respiration through mantis, excretory organs
paired and radula is prominent.
 Sexes are separate and development through
trochophore larva.
 Anus lies beneath the foot and otocysts and
gonads are prominent.
 www.jaxshells.org;
 http://museum.wa.gov.au/online-
collections/projects/ncb
 http://species-
identification.org/species.php?species_group=m
ollusca&id=649

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