Mollusc Synonyms

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Synonyms for Mollusc

shellfish
Any of various edible aquatic invertebrate animals having a shell, especially mollusks such as clams and oysters, and crustaceans such as lobsters, crabs, and shrimp.
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mollusk
Any of a large phylum (Mollusca) of invertebrate animals, including the chitons, gastropods, cephalopods, scaphopods, and bivalves characterized by a soft, unsegmented body, typically enclosed wholly or in part in a mantle and a calcareous shell, and usually having gills and a foot
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bivalve
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gastropod
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bryozoa
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crustacea
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amphipod
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bryozoan
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hydroid
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ostracod
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oligochaete
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  • A medusa with a remarkable habit of life is Mnestra parasites, which is parasitic on the pelagic mollusc Phyllirrhoe, attaching itself to the host by its subumbral surface; its tentacles, no longer required for obtaining food, have become rudimentary.

  • Thus in the primitive mollusc the mantle-cavity contains a symmetrical group of structures at the posterior end of the body, and this group of structures is called the pallial complex.

  • It is held by some morphologists that the mollusc body is unsegmented, and therefore is to be compared to a single segment of a Chaetopod or Arthropod.

  • He regarded it as a mollusc, being no doubt deceived by the slug-like appearance given by the antennae.

  • So far the young mollusc has not reached a definitely molluscan stage of Xviji.

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