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Mollusca Lec
Mollusca Lec
Mollis- soft
Soft bodied animals
Solitary animals
Shell (calcium carbonate)
Open circulatory system
Gills: Respiration
Generalized gill consist of:
-
Inhalant (infrabranchial)
(suprabranchial). Chambers
Spacious retreat,
Mantle epithelium secretes protein
and calcareous material to form the
shell.
Gills divided:
&
exhalant
Periostracumoutermost
layer,
composed of the protein conchiolin.
transporting
the
Coelom- skeleton
INTERNAL TRANSPORT:
Stomach=
pear-shaped
sac
(digestive ceca) - absorption and
phagocytosis.
Gastric shield- protects the stomach
gastrodermis from abrasion whereas
the sorting field separates the
indigestible mineral particles from
nutritious organic particles.
Intestinal grooves: ciliated major
and minor typhosoles.
NERVOUS SYSTEM:
Cephalic
sensory.
tentacles-
chemo,mecha,
REPRODUCTION: gonochoric
DEVELOPMENT: spiral,
cleavage.
Trochopore larva
holoblastic
Presence of calcareous
instead of a shell.
spicules
Shell valves
Insertion plate- wing like
Articulamentum purely calcareous
layer that lies under the tegmentum
in the center of the valve but extends
laterally free of the tegmentum to
form the insertion plates.
Hypostracum second calcareous
layer.
Nutrition:
Nervous system:
-
Ganglia absent.
Tetranous ladderlike.
Circumentric ring
C: Gastropoda
-
Detorsion- 90 degrees
Conispiral- each whorl partially or
completely overlaps and encloses the
preceding whorl.
Planispiral- old
Sanitation: anal pores
Siphon- selectively in choosing the
source of respiratory water.
Ancestral gastropod
-
Diotocardian heart.
Monotocardian
Nervous system:
(twisted)
Hypoathroid.
streptoneurons
Shell:
Columella- hollow cone coiled around the
central axis, holds everything together.
Aperture- large opening (outer&inner lip)
Adult- teloconch
Locomotion
-
Jaws
Accessory salivary glands may be
modified as venom glands
Median tooth
Filter feeding
Reproduction:
-
Gonochoric
Veliger larvae
Nervous system:
-
Higher:
-
Taenioglossate (taenio=band)
Rachiglossate (rachio=spine)
Carnivores:
-
Proboscis
C: Cephalopoda
-
Carnivores
Hooks or spines
Cuttlefish (10-12 rings of tentacles)
Form:
-
Siphon- moving
Appendages- tentacles
Visceral hump- conical posterior
cone.
Endocochleate:
developed
Archaeogastropods:
Radula is docoglossate (speartongue)
Some are rhipidioglossate (fan) each
row has an abundance of teeth.
Gastric cecum.
by
Cuttlebone
Ink sac
O: Teuthoidea: squid
Chitinous pen(gladius)
Appendages:
-
Eight arms
Suckers- stalked,
muscular.
cup
shaped,
Digestive system:
-
Internal transport
-
Endothelium
Systemic heart
Nervous system:
Cranium compact and complex brain
C: Bivalvia
hectocotylus-
intromittent
visceral
mass