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Mollusks Chapter 27
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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
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Section 27-4 Shell Mantle cavity Foot Gills Digestive tract Snail Early mollusk Clam Squid The Mollusk Body Plan Figure 27–21
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Feeding Herbivores, carnivores, filter feeders, detritivores, parasites Siphon: tubelike structure where water enters and leaves the body, washing water over gills and trapping plankton
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Radula flexible, tongue- shaped structure with tiny teeth for drilling through shells or scraping algae off rocks Hypselodoris bilineata
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Digestive system
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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
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Circulation Circulatory system to carry oxygen, nutrients, & waste Open circulatory system
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Excretion and Reproduction Nephridia: tube shaped structures remove ammonia from blood Release waste outside of body Sexual reproduction External fertilization
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Laying squid eggs
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Response Clams and other bivalves live sedentary lives and have simple nervous systems. Cephalopods have highly developed nervous systems. octopus eye
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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
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Snail mucus trail
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Groups of mollusks Gastropods: shell-less or single-shelled mollusks with muscular feet Sea snail
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Mexican turbo snail
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Nudibranch sea slug
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Groups of mollusks Bivalves: two shells held together by one or two powerful muscles
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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
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Groups of mollusks Cephalopods: soft-bodied mollusks where the head is attached to a foot, divided into arms and tentacles
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Squid
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Octopus
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Cuttlefish
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Vampire squid
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Octopus eye
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Nautilus
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