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Mollusca”
A presentation compiled
from various sources by
Dr. PARVISH PANDYA,
Zoology Dept. Bhavan’s College, Andheri.
• Pearls
• Burrowing shipworms
• Snails & slugs
– Garden pests
– Food
– Intermediate hosts for
parasites
Dentalium
• Tooth shells
• Shell opens on both
ends
• Burrow into mud
• No gills
– Mantle for gas
exchange
• Feed on detritus and
protozoa
Ctenidium
Foot
Anus
Anus
• Two shells
• Most are filter feeders
• No head or radula
• Burrow
– Sand, wood, rocks
Siphon
• Environmental Pest
• Ballast water of ships
from Europe in 1986
• Attach be secreting
adhesive byssal
threads
– Each other
– Other mussels
– Man made objects
• Pipes, plumbing
Labial palp
Ctenidium
Excurrent
siphon
Foot Incurrent
siphon
Intestine
Excurrent
Stomach Incurrent
Intestine Gonad
Digestive
gland
Excurrent
Stomach
Incurrent
Intestine Gonad
Heart
Intestine
Excurrent
Incurrent
Heart
Intestine
Excurrent
Incurrent
Gonad
Shell
Developing pearl
Epithelium
Scallop shells
• Terrestrail
• Mantle cavity
functions as lung
Foot
Mouth
Genital pore
Busycon shells
Busycon eggs
Dr. PARVISH PANDYA’s presentation
Other Gastropods
Abalone shells
Conch
Examples of gastropoda
Dr. PARVISH PANDYA’s presentation
Abalone
• No shell
• Dorsal projections
– Gills
– Nematocyst discharge
Dr. PARVISH PANDYA’s presentation
Slug
• No shell
• Garden pests
• Herbivores
• Cling to rocks or other surfaces
• Large shell
• Marine
• Many are predators
Right
Ventral
Dorsal
Left
Collar Fin
Eye
Systemic
heart
Branchial heart
Ctenidium
Funnel
Hectocotylous arm
Oviducal opening
Cephalopod Eye
• Up to 94 tentacles
– No suckers
• Shell with many
chambers
– Lives in outermost
• Extinct
• Devonian to
Cretaceous
– 400 to 65 MYA
• Died out with
dinosaurs