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What animals are bivalves?
Some examples of univalves are snails and slugs.
What ocean do univalves live in?
Univalves, otherwise known as gastropods, live in most all oceans. A sea mollusk is a good example of a univalve.
What do you call mollusks that have a single shell?
Univalves
Is the mollusk a bivalve univalve or cephalopods?
Bivalves, univalves, and cephalopods are all types of mollusks. So are gastropods.
What is belonged to gastropods univalves bivalves eephalopods?
Gastropods: snails. Gastro means something like 'stomach' or 'belly' and 'pod' means 'foot'. Cephalopods: octopusi. Cephalo means something like 'head'. Bivalves are molluscs with two clasping shells like a clam and univalves have only one.
What is difference between bivalves and univalves?
Valve refers to a shell, so a bivalve possesses two shells, which are usually hinged together and more or less cover the animal (Class Bivalvia), while univalves have only one shell, and typically leave the muscular foot exposed, unless the animal is capable of withdrawing into its shell (Class Gastropoda).
What are univalves?
Shells consisting of one valve only; also mollusks whose shells are composed of a single piece, as the snails and conchs.
How do univalves feed?
There is no such animal as a "univalve", however "bivalves" are filter feeders and filter seawater through their gills to pick up trace amounts of food.
What are gastropod's?
The class Gastropoda or gastropods (also previously known as univalves and sometimes also spelled Gasteropoda) are members of the phylum Mollusca and are more commonly known as "snails and slugs".
What mollusk has no shell?
Every mollusk except slugs, which have evolved to not need a shell, has a shell. Snails, clams and other bivalves have an external shell. Octopi, squid and cuttlefish have an internal shell.
What is an adaptation of a mollusk?
Some adaptations of mollusks include an operculum that most univalves have for protection, the radula of the moon snail that is used to drill through other shells to get their food, and the jet propulsion movement and ink sac of cephalopods to escape predators. - a jeark
What are two adaptations of a garden snail?
Some adaptations of mollusks include an operculum that most univalves have for protection, the radula of the moon snail that is used to drill through other shells to get their food, and the jet propulsion movement and ink sac of cephalopods to escape predators.
