Phylum Mollusca
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Common name
Mollusk Soft body
Symmetry
Bilateral- trophoblastic
Organ systems
Complete digestive system Open circulatory system Cephalopods have complete CS Vessels in gills Reduced eucoelomate
Diversity
Chitons Snails Cephalopods Bivalves 8 classes
Structure
Muscular foot Visceral mass Mantle Gills Radula Trocophor -> veliger
Shells
Calcium carbonate CaCo3 Mantle deposits Cephalopods don’t have shell Shells provide fossil record and index
Radula
Rasping and drilling tounge Venomous harpoons modified to beak
Polyplacopora
Marine chitons 8 plates for dorsal shell
Gastropoda
“Stomach foot” Snails, slugs, nudibranches Marine, freshwater, and terrestrial Torsion (twisting) Operculum
Bivalve
“Two halves” Oysters, clams, muscles, scallops Filter feeders
Cephalopods
“Head foot” Squid, octopus, cuttlefish, nautiluses Reduced shell, large complex eye, complex nervous system, closed circulatory system Intelligence