Gastropods
Snails and Slugs. Largest family of Mollusks.
Gastropods.
Two-Shelled Mollusks that are held together by hinges and strong muscles.
Bivalves
Octopi and their relatives
Cephlaphodes
thin layer of tissue that covers internal organs and grows the shell
Mantle
a little sluggish animal with a long delicate body and no legs
Slugs
Small object that gets stuck between a bivalves mantle and shell, and the mantle makes a pearly coat, which sometimes creates a pearl.
Pearls
squeezing a current of water out of the mantle cavity and through a tube. Then shoot off like a rocket in the opposite direction.
This thing have cilia that move back and forth in the water to get oxygen.
Gills
a ribbon full of tiny teeth to tear through plants and animals.
Radula
They make beautiful pearls that are used in jewelry
Oysters
Cephalopods that have a small shell inside of their body.
Cuttlefish
Symmetry where the body can be divided into two identical halves in one plane.
Bilateral Symmetry
Native Americans in the Northeast carved purple and white beads out of shells called
Wampum
Gastropods. a mollusk with a single spiral shell that can hold the entire body.
Snails
marine bivalve mollusk with shells of equal size.
Clams
Chromatophores
Where blood is contained in blood vessels.
Close circulatory system
Organ that crawls, digs, or catches food.
Foot
How do Bivalves get food?
Filter Feed
a ten-armed, elongated, fast-swimming cephalopod mollusk, with a small shell inside of their body.
Squid
blood is not always inside blood vessels. Heart pumps blood into spaces where organs are held. The blood sloshes over the organs and returns to the heart.
Open circulatory system
Cephalopods with an external shell.
Nautiluses