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Mollusca
BIOL2204 Mollusca
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| C. Polyplacophora | Chitons -> 8 shell plates, broad creeping food, strong and rasping radula |
| C. Gastropoda | Snails, abalone -> single, coiled shell, large food, present radula |
| C. Bivalvia | Mussels, clams -> 2 valves, 2 shells, burrowing foot, no radula, suspension feeders |
| C. Scaphopoda | Tusk shells -> single, cylindrical, conical burrowing foot, crushing radula |
| C. Cephalopoda | Cuttlefish, octopus, ram's horn squid -> single, coiled, external/internal/absent, large head beak and radula |
| Mussel gill function | surface of gills is coated with a sticky mucus, food particles get stuck. Cilia move mucas strings to labial palps where they are then sorted to mouth or unsuitable ones are rejected as pseudofaeces |
| LARVAE!!!!!!! | Good job! |