Chapter 21 Flashcards
(19 cards)
What is the largest group of water animals on earth
Mollusks
What are mollusks distinguished by
Foot, visceral hump, mantle
Examples of bivalves
Clam, muscle, oyster
Examples of Gastropods/ univalves
Snail slug whelk
Examples of Cephalopods
Squid octopus cuttlefish
Definition of bivalve
Two shells (valves)
Shellfish are bivalves and they secrete what to make pearls
Nacre
What is thin sheets of nacre fused into a ball
Pearl
The two shells of a bivalve are held together by what
Adductor muscles
Bivalves have what kind of circulatory system
Open
Bivalves reproduce through internal or external fertilizeation
External
What is the open chamber where the gills are located
Mantle cavity
What means right handed in terms of shell structure of univalves
Dextral
What are Marine slugs
Nudibranchs
What is the rough file like organ that is in the mouths of most univalves
Radula
What is a torpedo shaped cephalopod known for its ability to move by jet propulsion
Squid
Examples of echinoderms
Star fish sea urchins sand dollars sea cucumbers
Most echinoderms have what that rays or arms protrude from
Central disk