- animals,
whose members are
known as
molluscs or
mollusks (/ˈmɒləsks/).
Around 76,000 extant
species of
molluscs are recognized,
making it the second-largest...
-
Terrestrial molluscs or land
molluscs (mollusks) are an
ecological group that
includes all
molluscs that live on land in
contrast to
freshwater and marine...
- The
columella (meaning "little column") or (in
older texts)
pillar is a
central anatomical feature of a
coiled snail s****, a
gastropod s****. The columella...
- robe or cloak,
adjective pallial) is a
significant part of the
anatomy of
molluscs: it is the
dorsal body wall
which covers the
visceral m**** and usually...
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Freshwater molluscs are
those members of the
phylum Mollusca which live in
freshwater habitats, both
lotic (flowing water) such as rivers, streams, canals...
-
Septa (singular septum) are thin
walls or
partitions between the
internal chambers (camerae) of the s**** of a cephalopod,
namely nautiloids or ammonoids...
- The
molluscs have the
widest variety of eye
morphologies of any phylum, and a
large degree of
variation in
their function.
Cephalopods such as octopus...
- been described, of
which around 1.05
million are insects, over 85,000 are
molluscs, and
around 65,000 are vertebrates. It has been
estimated there are as...
-
referred to as the
Lamellibranchiata and Pelecypoda, is a
class of
aquatic molluscs (marine and freshwater) that have
laterally compressed soft
bodies enclosed...
- sea
slugs known as
aeolid nudibranchs,
marine opisthobranch gastropod molluscs. The term is also
applied to
mollusk anatomy in
other contexts: land slugs...
