Mollusks Chapter 27
Mollusk characteristics Soft-bodied animals with an internal or external shell Trochophore: free-swimming larvae stage Body plan –Foot: crawling, burrowing, tentacles –Mantle: thin tissue layer that covers body –Shell: made from glands that secrete calcium carbonate, may be reduced or lost in some –Visceral mass: internal organs
Section 27-4 Shell Mantle cavity Foot Gills Digestive tract Snail Early mollusk Clam Squid The Mollusk Body Plan Figure 27–21
Feeding Herbivores, carnivores, filter feeders, detritivores, parasites Siphon: tubelike structure where water enters and leaves the body, washing water over gills and trapping plankton
Radula flexible, tongue- shaped structure with tiny teeth for drilling through shells or scraping algae off rocks Hypselodoris bilineata
Digestive system
Respiration Gills within mantle cavity Large surface area with blood vessels Orange peel nudibranch (about 25 cm length) with protruding white gills on the ventral side
Circulation Circulatory system to carry oxygen, nutrients, & waste Open circulatory system
Excretion and Reproduction Nephridia: tube shaped structures remove ammonia from blood Release waste outside of body Sexual reproduction External fertilization
Laying squid eggs
Response Clams and other bivalves live sedentary lives and have simple nervous systems. Cephalopods have highly developed nervous systems. octopus eye
Movement Snails: secrete mucus and crawl slowly Cephalopods: fast moving, drawing water into mantle cavity and forcing water out of siphon (like jet propulsion) excessive amount of snail mucus secreted
Snail mucus trail
Groups of mollusks Gastropods: shell-less or single-shelled mollusks with muscular feet Sea snail
Mexican turbo snail
Nudibranch sea slug
Groups of mollusks Bivalves: two shells held together by one or two powerful muscles
Section 27-4 Mouth Shell Stomach Coelom Heart Nephridium Adductor muscle Anus Excurrent siphon Incurrent siphon Gills Mantle cavity Foot Intestine Mantle cavity Adductor muscle The Anatomy of a Clam Figure 27–23
Groups of mollusks Cephalopods: soft-bodied mollusks where the head is attached to a foot, divided into arms and tentacles
Squid
Octopus
Cuttlefish
Vampire squid
Octopus eye
Nautilus