mollusks
DESCRIPTION
Mollusks. Phylogeny. Platyhelminthes. Porifera. Mollusca. Chordata. Arthropoda. Annelida. Cnideria. Nematoda. Echinodermata. pseudocoelom. segmentation. acoelom. Protostome: schizocoelem. Deuterostomes: eucoelom. radial symmetry. bilateral symmetry. no true tissues. true tissue. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Ancestral Protist
segmentation
true tissue
radial symmetry
bilateral symmetry
Deuterostomes:eucoelom
Protostome: schizocoelem
pseudocoelom
Porifera
Cnideria
Platyhelminthes
Nematoda
Mollusca
AnnelidaEchinodermata
ChordataArthropoda
no true tissues
acoelom
Phylum Mollusca
Class Polyplacophora
Class Gastropoda
Class Bivalvia
Class Cephalopoda
More than 500,000 known species
chitons SnailsSea slugsnudibranchs
clams SquidOctopusCuttlefishNautilus
Class Scaphopoda
Tusk shells
Three main parts:
• Muscular foot- for movement• Visceral mass- contains most of the
internal organs
• Mantle cavity- houses gills
mantle
foot
visceral mass
• Grazers (radula- scraping tongue)
• Filter feeding
• Egg eaters
• Active predation
Kingdom AnimaliaPhylum Mollusca
Class Polyplacophora chiton
Class Polyplacophora chiton
Class Scaphopoda tusk shell
Class Scaphopoda tusk shell
Spanish Dancer (nudibranch) & egg mass
Class GastropodaSubclass Opisthobranchia
nudibranchsPhistella
nudibranchsPhistella
Phylum MolluscaClass Gastropoda
nudibranchsnudibranchs
Nembrotha kubaryana
Cuthona sp.
Chromodoris annae Halgerda batangas
Chromodoris
nudibranchsnudibranchs
Cowery
Opihiperiwinkle
Class Gastropoda
Cone snail
EpitomiumEpitomium
Triton’s trumpetTriton’s trumpet
pterapods
Class Bivalvia
Class Cephalopoda
Squid
Class Cephalopoda
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2s3C0lkQE0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR53smpV_xg
Class Cephalopoda
Flamboyant cuttlefish
Class Cephalopoda
octopus
Octopus Intelligence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQwJXvlTWDw
Start at 2 minutes
flatfish
lionfish
Sea snake
Mimic octopus from Indonesia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8oQBYw6xxc
Dumbo
Vampire
Coconut
Amphioctopus marginatus
Blue-ringed octopus
Highly venomous