Exam 2 Flashcards
Phylum molcusca
Extremely diverse
Marine,freshwater, terrestrial
Most small
Octopi, squids, clams, sea snails
Why are molluscs used by humans
Food Pearls Bioindicators Pests Biotechnological/ medical importance
What makes a mollusc a mollusc
Visceral mass
Head-foot
About head-foot
Feeding
Sense-organs
The radula
The radula
Chitinous ribbon of teeth
Not in any bivalve
Odontophore cartilage holds teeth
The foot (of head foot)
Locomotion, attachment
Ventral
What is the visceral mass
Internal organs
Mantle and mantle cavity
Internal organs of molluscs
Digestive, excretory, reproductive, respiratory
Mantle and mantle cavity
Muscles have chemoreceptors
Makes the shell
Muscle cavity causes excretion
What is the mantle
The skin
What is the mantle cavity
Open to world, excretion, respiration, and reproduction
Three layers of mantle and shell
- Periostracum (outer layer)
- Prismatic layer (calcium carbonate stack)
- Nacre (pearl layer)
Pearls are made how
Many layers that form to protect molluscs from debris that has entered their shell
Basic internal characteristics of Molluscs
Bilateral symmetric coelomates Mantle/cavity for respiration Most have circulatory system Complex digestive system Varied nervous system
Reproductive systems of molluscs
Monoecious and dioecious Never asexual Trochophore larvae in most Veliger Larvae common Some have direct development (no larvae)
Mollusc class caudofoveata & solengastres
Worm-like and shell-less
Calcareous scales/spicules
Marine detrital/microorganism -consumers-burrowers
Reduced head, no foot
Mollusc Class monoplacophora
One plate
Thought to extinct
Round shell, large foot
Serial repetition of body parts
Mollusc class polyplacophora
Many plates (8)
Mantle girdle around outside
Intertidal rocky arms
Serial repetition seen
Mollusc class scaphopoda
Tusk shells/tooth shells Sedentary Tubular shell Tentacle foot A lot of diffusion in mantle cavity
Mollusc class Gastropoda
Stomach foot
Snail periwinkles limpets sea slugs
Marine freshwater terrestrial
Coiled shell, domed shell, no shell
Main groups of Gastropods
Prosobranchia (marine snails)
Opisthobranchia
Pulmonata (land and freshwater snails)
Torsion
180 degree rotation of mantle/ mantle cavity
Coiling
Whirling of the shell
How does torsion and coiling work
Both happen in the embryonic shell
Coiling solves problems from torsion
They are 2 evolutionary events