Respiration

 Aquatic: Ctenidia = ciliated gills or…

 Land: ‘lungs’, body surface or mantle
General circulatory systems
 Circulation
 Most molluscs – open circulatory system
 blood from heart, through arteries to
tissue spaces and haemocoel (blood
sinuses)

 Squid and octopods have closed

circulatory system
 2 x branchial hearts +
 1x systemic heart
 Nervous system

 Circumoesophageal ring + 2 paired cords…

 Ventral - control foot
 Dorsal - control viscera

 Sense organs:
 Photosensory receptors (eyes)
 Tentacles
 Statocysts
 Osphradia