[CLASSIFICATION AND DIYESSITY OF ORGANISS - 653, Phylum Mollusca ‘Main feanres {@) Ventral side of body typically has a soft musctilar foot. {@) On the dorsal side is 2 visceral hump containing the main digestive organs. @) Visceral hump generally protected by a shel G) Most molluscs have a rasping tongue-like radula for feeding. (S) Gills (ctenidia) for respiration and, in some cases, filter-feeding, located in chamber called mantle cavity. (6) Majority have lost all traces of metametic segmentation, () Typically there is a trochophore larva during development, thus linking them with annelids, Class MONOPLACOPHORA. ‘The only group of molluscs showing metameric segmentation; single conical shell. Neopilina: deep sea form discovered in 1956. Class AMPHINEURA Limpet-like with shell divided transversely into many units; marine. Chiton: shell made up of 8 caleareous plates; numerous spicules project from sides of body. Next anil shell Ghiton (Gi (Garden sail. Fie ce foot peu (catia size) (approxinate naar size) nsery tentacles foot Class GASTROPODA Large flat foot; visceral hump rotates (torsion) during development resulting in coiling of shell. F Buccinum: whelk; marine snail with coiled shell, ‘Helix: common garden snail; gills lost, mantle cavity becoming a ‘lung’ ieee Testacella: slug; similar to snail but with greatly reduced shel. Arado shell Class LAMELLIBRANCHIATA 1 Laterally compressed; shell divided into two halves (bivalve); sheet-lke gills (hence name of group); head and foot generally reduced. Anodonta: freshwater mussel, foot used for burrowing, ‘Mytilus: marine mussel, similar (0 Anodonta but sessile, foot greatly reduced. Poca Class CEPHALOPODA C= Foot incorporated into head (hence name of group); 8 or 10 sucker-bearing tentacles; shell internal and reduced or absent; active animals with: good sense organs and nerves. Sepia: squid; 10 tentacles, reduced shell; its giant nerve fibres were used for pioneering work on the nerve impulse. ‘Oeiopus: basically similar to squid but no shell und 8 tentacles instead of 19; its well developed brain has made it useful in research on learning.