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Mollusk
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Mantle Cavity | houses ctenidia; waste empties into mantle; vascularized filamentous projections |
| Visceral mass | internal organs, coelem |
| Mantle | secretes a shell |
| Nacreous | inner most part of mantle |
| Prismatic | two layers of calcium carbonate |
| Pariostracum | protein outer layer protects inner layers |
| Foot | muscular structure used for locomotion and prey capture |
| Class Polyplacophora | Phylum Molluska; chitons, poor cephalization have strong foot, radula is hard used to scrape and grind algae off of rocks and other surfaces |
| Class Bivalvia | Phylum Molluska; clams scallops and oysters, |
| Class Gastropoda | Phylum Molluska; crawl on muscular foot: terrestrial gastropods lack gills instead is richly vascularized to serve as an air breathing lung |
| pulmonate | freshwater/ terrestrial |
| Class Cephalopoda | squid, octopus, cuttlefish, and nautilus; well developed sensory nervous and locomotory system; foot has developed into a ring of arms and tentacles which are covered in suction cups |