Octavios Book Mollusks

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Octavios BookMollusks
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• Mollusks are
• Invertebrates
• (no backbones)

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• The clams and
• the cockles
• are
• mollusks

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• Mollusks have
• soft-bodies
• without bones
• and legs

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• The snails and
• the slugs are
• mollusks

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• Mollusks have
• a mantle that
• makes the
• shell and

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• a muscular
• foot used for
• motion

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• but some mollusks
• develop
• tentacles in
• place of a foot

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• The nautilus
• is a mollusk
• that has
• tentacles

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• Most mollusks
• are protected
• by hard shells

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• The oyster
• and the
• abalones
• are mollusks

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• Sometimes a
• grain of sand
• gets inside an
• oyster and
• produces a pearl

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• Cuttlefish and
• squid are
• mollusks that a
• shell grows inside
• they're body

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• The giant
• squid is the
• largest
• invertebrate

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• Some mollusks
• like the octopus
• dont have a shell
• at all

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• This enables them
• to squeeze
• through very
• narrow slits

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• Octopus are
• considered the
• smartest of all the
• invertebrates

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• Other
• mollusks are

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• The scallops
• and the
• mussel,

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• and the sea
• hare and
• limpet

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• There are
• more than
• 112,000 species
• of Mollusk