MOLLUSCA

KAYLA SMITH TOMMIE M

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GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS MORE PHYLUM

MOLLUSCA IS A DIVERSE GROUP MORE THAN 112,000 SPECIES.

MOLLUSKS ARE AMONG SEVERAL PHYLA OF ANIMALS KNOWN AS COELOMATES.

COELOMATES DIFFER FROM PSEUDOCOELOM,SUCH AS ROUNDWARMS,WHICH HAVE A BODY CAVITY LINED BY MESODERM ON THE OUTSIDE AND ENDODERM ON THE INSIDE.

A COELOM ALSO PROVIDES A SPACE WHERE THE CIRCULATORY SYSTEM CAN TRANSPORT BLOOD WITHOUT INTERFERENCE FROM OTHER INTERNAL ORGANS.

ANOTHER FEATURE THAT IS SHARED BY MOST AQUATIC MOLLUSKS AND ANNELIDS IS A LARVAL STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT CALLED A TROCHOPHORE.

CILLA ON THE SURFUCE OF A FREE-SWIMMING PROPEL THE LARVA THROUGH THE WATER AND DRAW FOOD INTO ITS MOUTH.

ADAPTATIONS

GLASS GASTROPODA.-THE NAME ''GASTROPODA'' LITERALLY MEANS ''STOMACH-FOOT'' (THESE ANIMALS CRAWL AROUND ON THEIR STOMACH).

THE PHYLUM MOLLUSCA IS SECOND IN SIZE ONLY TO THE PHYLUM ARTHROPODA ALTHOUGH MEMBERS OF THIS PHYLUM ARE EXTREMELY DIVERSE IN STRUCTURE.

3 INTERESTING FACTS MOLLUSCA IS ONE OF

THE MOST DIVERSE GROUPS OF ANIMALS ON THE PLANET,WITH AT LEAST 50,000 LIVING SPECIES (AND MORE LIKELY AROUND 200,000).

MOLLUSCS ARE A CLADE OF ORGANISMS THAT ALL HAVE SOFT BODIES WHICH TYPICALLY HAVE A ''HEAD'' AND A ''FOOT'' REGION.

A CUTTLEFISH,A COLEOID CEPHOLOPAD,MOVES PRIMARILY BY UNDULATING ITS BODY FINS

3 Vocabulary words AQUATIC-of, in, or pertaining to water

PRIMARILY-essentially; mostly; chiefly; principally

SPECIES-a class of individuals having some common characteristics or qualities; distinct sort or kind

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Elktoe

Kingdom Animalia

Phylum:Phylum:Mollusca

Class:Class:Bivalvia

order:order:Unionoida

family:family:Unionidae

genus:Alasmidonta

Species: raveneliana

Common name:

Size:3in lenth and 1.5 height

Habaitat; the mountain streams of western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee

food:

Ancylus

Kingdom:Animalia

Phylum: Mollusca

Class: Gastropoda

Order: Basommatophora

Family: Ancylidae

Genus: Ancylus

Size:

Habatait;

food:

mucket

Kingdom Animalia

Phylum Mollusca

Class Bivalvia

Order Unionoida

Family Unionidae

genus:Actinonaias

species:ligamentina

Size:

Habaitat

food: