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Phylum Mollusca.

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1 Phylum Mollusca

2 There are 5 classes: Class Amphineura – Chitons, 8 shells
Class Gastropoda – ‘Stomach foot’ Class Bivalvia – 2 valves/shells Class Scaphopoda – ‘tooth-shaped’ shells Class Cephalopoda – ‘head attached to foot’

3 All members of the Phylum Mollusca have:
Muscular foot Mantle Shell Visceral Mass

4 Class Amphineura Chitons
Have 8 shells This diagram – dorsal surface

5 Ventral muscular surface
Muscular portion: foot

6 Class Gastropoda ‘Stomach-foot” Movement done on ‘muscular foot’

7 Class Gastropoda - Snails

8 Snail Diagram

9 Gastropods - Sea slugs/nudibranchs

10 Class Bivalvia 2 shells Clams Oysters Mussels

11 Typical Shell/Valve

12 Class Scaphopoda Tooth or tusk shaped shells

13 Scaphopoda Diagram

14 Class Cephalopoda

15 Cephalopods have a ‘head’

16 Cephalopods include: Octopi Squid Cuttlefish Nautiluses
Have internal shells Swim with jet propulsion


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