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What Is a Mollusk?
What are the defining features of
mollusks?
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What Is a Mollusk?
1. Mollusks are soft-bodied animals that
usually have an internal or external shell.
(Mollusks include snails, slugs, clams, squids,
and octopi.
Many mollusks share similar developmental
stages.)
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What Is a Mollusk?
(Many aquatic mollusks
have a free-swimming
larval stage called a
trochophore.
The trochophore larva is
also characteristic of
annelids, indicating that
these two groups may
be closely related.)
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Form and Function in Mollusks
Mollusks have true coeloms surrounded by
mesoderm tissue.
They have complex, interrelated organ systems
that function together to maintain the body as a
whole.
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What is the basic body plan of mollusks?
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Body Plan
2. The body plan of most mollusks has four
parts: foot, mantle, shell, and visceral
mass.
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3. The muscular foot takes many
forms
• flat structures for crawling
• spade-shaped structures for
burrowing
• tentacles for capturing prey
Squid
Snail
Clam
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4.The mantle is a thin layer of tissue that covers
most of the mollusk's body.
5. The shell is made by glands in the mantle that
secrete calcium carbonate.
6. Just beneath the mantle is the visceral mass,
which contains the internal organs.
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Feeding
Mollusks can be herbivores, carnivores, filter
feeders, detritivores, or parasites.
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7. Snails and slugs feed
using a flexible, tongueshaped structure known
as a radula.
(Hundreds of tiny teeth
are attached to the
radula.
The radula is used to
scrape algae off rocks or
to eat the soft tissues of
plants.)
Teeth
Radula
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9. Clams, oysters, and scallops use gills.
10. Food is carried by water, which enters the
incurrent siphon.
A siphon is a tubelike structure through which water
enters and leaves the body.
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11.The water flows over the gills and leaves by the
excurrent siphon.
Excurrent
siphon
Incurrent
siphon
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12. Respiration
Aquatic mollusks breathe using
gills inside their mantle cavity.
Gills
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(As water passes through the mantle cavity,
oxygen in the water moves into blood flowing
through the gills.
At the same time, carbon dioxide moves in the
opposite direction.)
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Land snails and slugs respire using a mantle cavity
that has a large surface area lined with blood
vessels.
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Circulation
Some mollusks have open circulatory systems;
other mollusks have closed circulatory systems.
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13. In an open circulatory system, blood is
pumped through vessels by a simple heart.
Heart
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(Blood leaves the vessels and works its way through
different sinuses.
Blood passes from the sinuses to the gills, where
oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged. Blood is
then pumped back to the heart.
Slow-moving mollusks often have open circulatory
systems.)
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(Faster-moving mollusks have a closed circulatory
system.
A closed circulatory system can transport blood
through an animal’s body much more quickly than an
open circulatory system.)
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Excretion
Cells of the body release nitrogen-containing
waste into the blood in the form of ammonia.
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Nephridia remove ammonia from the blood and
release it outside the body.
Nephridium
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(Response
The complexity of the nervous system and the
ability to respond to environmental conditions
varies among mollusks.
Two-shelled mollusks have a simple nervous
system.)
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(Octopi and their relatives have the most highly
developed nervous system of all invertebrates.
Well-developed brains in these animals allows them
to remember things for long periods.)
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(Movement
Snails secrete mucus along the base of the foot,
and then move over surfaces using a rippling
motion of the foot.
The octopus draws water into the mantle cavity
and then forces the water out through a siphon.
Water leaving the body propels the octopus in the
opposite direction.)
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(Reproduction
Some mollusks reproduce sexually by external
fertilization.
In other mollusks, fertilization takes place inside
the body of the female.
Some mollusks are hermaphrodites and usually
fertilize eggs from another individual.)
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Groups of Mollusks
What are the characteristics of the three
main classes of mollusks?
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Groups of Mollusks
The three major classes of mollusks are
• gastropods
• bivalves
• cephalopods
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Gastropods
14. Gastropods are shell-less or singleshelled mollusks that move by using a
muscular foot located on the ventral
side.
(Many gastropods have a single shell that
protects their bodies.
When threatened, they can pull completely
into their shells.)
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Gastropods include
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pond snails
land slugs
sea butterflies
sea hares
limpets
nudibranchs
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Bivalves
15. Bivalves have two shells that are held
together by one or two powerful muscles.
Common bivalves include:
• clams
• oysters
• mussels
• scallops
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Cephalopods
16. Cephalopods are typically soft-bodied
mollusks in which the head is attached to a
single foot. The foot is divided into
tentacles or arms.
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(Cephalopods have eight or more tentacles equipped
with sucking disks that grab and hold prey.
Most modern cephalopods have only small internal
shells or no shells at all.
The only present-day cephalopods with external
shells are nautiluses.)
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(Cephalopods have complex sense organs that help
them detect and respond to external stimuli.
Cephalopods distinguish shapes by sight and texture
by touch.
The eyes of many cephalopods are complex.)
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Ecology of Mollusks
Mollusks
• feed on plants
• prey on animals
• filter algae out of the water
• eat detritus
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Some mollusks are hosts to symbiotic algae or to
parasites; others are themselves parasites.
Mollusks are food for many organisms.
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The trochophore larva is a characteristic that
mollusks share with
a. flatworms.
b. roundworms.
c. annelids.
d. flukes.
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Water enters and leaves the body of a bivalve
through
a. a siphon.
b. cilia.
c. a coelom.
d. a nephridium.
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The most active group of mollusks is the
a. gastropods.
b. bivalves.
c. cephalopods.
d. shell-less gastropods.
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Unlike the other mollusks, cephalopods have
a(an)
a. closed circulatory system.
b. ventral blood vessel.
c. open circulatory system.
d. dorsal blood vessel.
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The body plan of most mollusks includes all of
the following EXCEPT a
a. foot.
b. mantle.
c. shell.
d. radula.
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