Title: Phylum Mollusca
1Phylum Mollusca
2Phylum Mollusca
- Mollusks are soft-bodied animals that usually
have an internal or external shell. - Mollusks include
- Snails
- Slugs
- Clams
- Squids
- Octopus
3Mollusca Characteristics
- Soft body
- External or internal shell-
- Muscular foot and visceral mass (covered by
mantle) - Radula in most-used to scrape food
- Bilateral symmetry
- No segments
- Coelomates
- Open circulatory system- blood not always in a
vessel - Trochophore larvae
4Trochophore larva-paddlelike, bristles
Apical tuft
Stomach
Ciliary band
Mouth
Anus
5Phylum Mollusca Anatomy
- The body plan of most have 4 parts
- mantle, shell, visceral mass, and foot.
- 1.The mantle is a thin layer of tissue that
covers most of the mollusks body like a cloak.
6Phylum Mollusca Anatomy
- 2. The shell is made by glands in the mantle that
- secretes calcium carbonate.
- -- Reduced or lost in slugs
- -- Internal or lost in Cephalopods
-
(squid/octopus)
7Phylum Mollusca Anatomy
- 3. Visceral mass is just beneath the mantle and
- consists of the internal organs.
8Phylum Mollusca Anatomy
- The muscular foot takes many forms
- flat structures-crawling
- spade-shaped- burrowing
- tentacles-capturing prey.
- clip-giant octopus capturing preyl
9Phylum Mollusca Feeding
- Most Mollusks have a radula a rough,
tongue-like organ with rows of teeth-like
structures. - -scrape algae off surfaces
- - rasp up flesh from prey.
10Body Systems
- Muscular-Skeletal - outer shell, soft body,
muscular foot for movement. - Digestion food brought in through a siphon
system? mouth?digestive gland ?intestine?anus. - Nervous- A Mollusk has no formal nervous system,
but has a series of ganglia that conduct
impulses. - Circulatory - heart, blood and blood vessels,
open - Respiratory- tubes called siphons- bring water in
and out of their bodies to take in oxygen and
give off carbon dioxide. - gills- help with this.
- Reproductive- separate males or female and
reproduces sexual- with a large gonad. - Excretion- nephridium that gets rid of wastes?
anus
11Checkpoint
- How are mollusks different from other animals we
have studied? - Describe their larval stage.
- What are the 4 main parts of a mollusk?
- Which one secretes the shell? What are shells
made of? - How do mollusks respire?
- What do they use to remove nitrogenous wastes?
12Classes of Mollusks
- There are 8 classes of Mollusks (Covering 5)
- Class Monoplacophora placo-plate
- Class Polyplacophora Chiton
- Class Gastropoda snails, slugs, sea hares
- Class Bivalvia clams, oysters, mussles
- scallops
- Class Cephalopoda octopus, squids, cuttlefish,
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nautilus
13Class Monoplacophora
- Mono one
- Placoplate
- Phora to have or bear
- Mollusks with a single, curved shell
- Marine
- Thought to be extinct until one was found in 1952
14Class Polyplacophora
- Poly many placo plates
- shell is divided into 8 curved plates
- or shells
- Marine
- Have a reduced head and a flattened foot
- Ex. Chiton?
15Polyplacophora
- When disturbed, the edges of the mantle
- tightly grip the substrate creating a
powerful - vacuum that holds the chiton in place
- Has the ability to roll into a ball when
dislodged
16Class Bivalvia
- Clams, Oysters, Mussels Scallops
- Live in water, filter feeding
- 2 shells held together by powerful
muscles(hinges) - No radula
- Hatchet shaped foot
- (pelecy) for burrowing
17Class Bivalvia
- only Mollusks that do NOT have a radula
- Feed by siphoning and filtering large particles
from water - Can survive for short times out of water by
closing their valves - Scallops can move around by flapping their
- shells when threatened.
18 Class Bivalvia
Oyster Catcher
Willet
Plover
- Starfish, many sea birds (Oyster Catchers,
willets, plovers, and much more), and walrus feed
on them - The largest bivalve is the Giant clam (clip)
- Can weigh more than 450 lbs
19Class Bivalvia Making Pearls
- Oysters filter-feed
- An irritant, such as a grain of sand, becomes
- embedded in the mantle.
- The animal coats the irritant with the same
material - used to produce the lining of its shell
called mother- - of-pearl.
- The coating makes the irritant less painful.
- It continues to coat the irritant, creating a
pearl.
20Class BivalviaImportance
- Bivalves are filter feeders
- valuable service by reducing suspended particles
in their habitats - If their populations are reduced, their water in
that area will become turbid (cloudy) - Turbid water reduces light penetration for
photosynthesis in sea-grasses and algae - Without plants, many other populations of
organisms will also decrease
21Class Bivalvia Eating Bivalves
Mmmmmmm
- Oysters on a half-shell
- Considered an aphrodisiac
- Eaten fried, Steamed, or raw
Mmmmm.
GOOD!
22Class Gastropoda
- Gastropoda means stomach foot
- Includes snails, slugs, sea hares
- Most are single shelled- asymmetrical and
coiled - Some are shell-less (slugs sea hares)
- Radula for scraping food
23Class Gastropoda
- They are 2nd only to insects in their number of
- known species
-
- gardens, woodland, deserts, rivers and lakes
estuaries, mudflats, the rocky intertidal, the
sandy subtidal, in the depths of the oceans, and
many other ecosystems - queen-conch/strombus-gigas/video-00.html
24Class Gastropoda
- They move using a muscular foot
- Many have 2 or 4 tentacles
- with eyes on the tip
- Most have a coiled shell that
- opens to the right
- The Lightning Whelk is the only
- left handed snail
- Gastropod clip- Oahu tree snail
25Class Gastropoda
- Many have an operculum that is used as a
trap-door to close the body inside the shell - Most breath using gills
26Class Gastropoda Importance
- Many animals feed on gastropods
- -- Example Sea otters eat abalone
27Class Gastropoda
- Hermit crabs inhabit empty snail shells.
- When the crab gets too big for the shell, they
- find a larger one.
- Hermit crabs have wars for prized shells.
- http//www.arkive.org/common-hermit-crab/pagurus-b
ernhardus/video-03.html
28Class Gastropoda
- Suborder Nudibranchia
- - Means Naked gill
- - marine, shell-less gastropods
- - The gills are arranged as feathery
- plumes on their backs
- - Are brightly colored
- Warning many are poisonous
- Camouflage
29Class Cephalopoda
30Class Cephalopoda
- Typically soft-bodied with the head attached to a
single foot. - The foot is divided into tentacles or arms.
31Cephalopoda Locomotion
- Most swim by forcefully expelling water from the
mantle cavity through a ventral - funnel (Siphon).
- Swim using jet propulsion method.
- Funnel can point forward or backward to control
direction - The force of water expulsion determines speed.
32Cephalopoda Feeding
- beaks similar to a birds beak, used for
crushing and picking apart food.
Beak
33- Masters of disguise!
- -- Color changes are possible due to special
- pigment cells contained within its skin,
called - chromatophores.
34Cephalopoda
- Chromatophores small structures filled with
colored ink which can be expanded and contracted
to communicate with others or as camouflage
against the landscape.
35Cephalopoda
- Color changes are used for
- - Camouflage
- - Communication (alarm/courtship)
- - Many are bioluminescent to attract prey
- and mating partners!
36Octopus are Highly Intelligent
- Maze and problem-solving experiments have shown
that they do have both short- and long-term
memory. - Can be trained to distinguish between different
shapes patterns - Observed having
- observational skills
37Class Cephalopoda
- Octopus
- - Have 8 arms
- - Arms have sucking disks
- that grab hold prey.
- - Blood is pale blue.
- - The shell is absent!
-
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38Class Cephalopoda
- More
- Octopus
- - When female lays eggs, she stops eating,
protects her eggs until she dies.
39Class Cephalopoda
- Blue-ringed Octopus
- - The most toxic
- A bite is nearly always fatal to humans.
- Giant Octopus
- Can weigh 600 lbs
- Known to attack ROV and bite into metal
40Class Cephalopoda
- People eat octopus Dead or ALIVE!
- A dish called San Nakti means living octopus
- -- Kind of difficult to get the octopus down
because the tentacles stick to your mouth and
throat. - -- They also have a tendency to walk off your
plate!
Hungry?
Hungry?
41Cuttlefish Squid
- Have 10 appendages (decapods)
- 8 arms with suckers and 2 long retractile
tentacles
42Forms of Cephalopoda
- Cuttlefish
- -- Have an internal gas filled bone that
helps - with buoyancy called the cuttlebone.
- -- Well, it is not for sharpening the beak.
It's amazing how many pet owners think this is
its purpose. Cuttlebone is provided to birds as a
source of calcium and other necessary minerals.
It is especially important to breeding hens.
43 Forms of Cephalopoda
- Squid
- -- Color changes reflect the animals mood.
- -- Messages
- ready to mate, sexual identification,
alarm, - ready to hunt, hiding.
44 Cephalopoda Squid
- Squid
- Most of the shell has disappeared, leaving only a
thin, horny strip called a pen which is enclosed
in the mantle.
45Cephalopoda
- Squid
- Giant Squid are the largest
- invertebrate
- Have the largest eyes in
- the animal kingdom
- Never been seen alive!!!
- Their bodies wash up onto
- beaches
- Sperm whales feed on giant squid
46Forms of Cephalopoda
- Nautilus
- http//www.arkive.org/nautilus/nautilus-pompilius/
videos.html
47Forms of Cephalopoda
- Nautilus
- -- Sticking out from the shell is the
nautiluses - arms and a leathery hood that closes the
- animal into its shell for protection.
- -- This nautilus has more than 90 arms.
48Forms of Cephalopoda
- More Nautilus
- -- only cephalopod encased in a shell.
- -- The nautilus can fill the chambers it doesnt
occupy with gas or water. If the chambers are
filled with gas, the animal will float. If the
chambers are filled with water, the animal will
sink.
49Forms of Cephalopoda
- More Nautilus
- -- living animal inhabits only the last
- chamber.
- -- As it grows, it moves forward, secreting
- behind it a new septum.
- -- chambers are connected by a cord of
- living tissue called a siphuncle, which
- extends from the visceral mass.
50Nautilus
51Table 1 Classes of the Phylum Mollusk Table 1 Classes of the Phylum Mollusk Table 1 Classes of the Phylum Mollusk Table 1 Classes of the Phylum Mollusk Table 1 Classes of the Phylum Mollusk
Scientific Name Pronunciation Common Name Shells Foot of Species
Polyplacophore chitons 8-plates 650
Monoplacophores 1 ? extinct
Gastropoda GAS-troh-pahdz univalves (snails, slugs) 1 or none stomach foot 90,000
Bivalvia Pelecapoda bivalves 2 hatchet foot 8000
Celphalopoda SEHF-uh-loh-pahdz octopus, squids internal head foot 650
52The End of Mollusca
Polyplacophore (many plates). Amphineura.