Mollusca Flashcards
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Head-foot: Functions
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Feeding, sensory, locomotive organs
2
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Head
A
Well-developed with mouth and sensory organs
3
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Radula
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Rasping, protrusible, tongue-like organ located in the mouth
4
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Foot: Functions
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Adapted for locomotion and/or attachment
5
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Foot Modifications
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- Bivalves: Laterally compressed foot
- Cephalopods: Funnel
6
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Visceral mass
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Houses digestive, circulatory, respiratory, and reproductive organs
7
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Mantle
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- Sheath of skin that wraps around each side of the body
- secretes shell
8
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Mantle cavity
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Resp° organs + products of digestive/excretory/reproductive systems
9
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Circulation
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- Mostly open circulatory system
- Closed in cephalopods
10
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Reproduction
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- Sexual reproduction
- Mostly dioecious
- Produce free-swimming trochophore & veliger larvae
11
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Trochophore
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Free-swimming ciliated marine larvae
12
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Veliger larvae
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- Free-swimming larvae of most marine snails and bivalves
- Develop from trochophore larvae
- Has the beginning of a foot, shell, and mantle
13
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Classes
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- Gastropoda
- Bivalve
- Cephalopoda
14
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Gastropoda:
* Examples:
* Environment:
* Form:
* Symmetry:
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- Snails, slugs, whelks, conchs, periwinkles…
- Terrestrial or aquatic
- Many have shells
- Bilateral asymmetry due to coiling/torsion
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Bivalves
* Examples
* Environment:
* Form:
* Locomotion:
* Nutrition
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- Mussels, clams, scallops, oysters, & shipworms
- Marine & freshwater
- No head or radula, some have simple eyes (ocelli)
- Mostly sedentary or sessile
- Sedentary filter feeders (draw water through gills by ciliary action)
