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Certain mollusks have rough raspy tongue-like organs called radulas. These mollusks include snails, and slugs. Another animal called the hagfish lives in marine environments and uses its radula to eat dead carcases in its water environment.
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Mollusks except for the filter feeding bivalves have a specialized feeding organ known as the?
radula. The radula is a tongue-like organ equipped with rows of small, chitinous teeth that are used to scrape or rasp food particles off surfaces. It is primarily found in gastropods such as snails and slugs, but is also present in other mollusk groups like chitons and some cephalopods.
What do mollusks use to scrape food off of rocks?
Radula
Which phyla has a body part called radula and mantle?
mollusca
How can you show radula in pila during dissection and Where it is exactly in pila body?
it was behind nerve ring in the nervous system.
What are some phylum mollusca charateristics?
Characteristics include:MantleMuscular Foot (in cephalopods this has branched out to form tentacles and arms)Radula - a chainsaw like feeding tongue (secondarily lost in some species such as the bivalves and some cephalopods)Calcium Carbonate Shell (secondarily lost in some cephalopods and some gastropods)Open Circulatory System
How are mollusk's radula's used?
used for feeding
Do oysters have a radula?
No. Oysters do not have a radula
A gastropods radula enables it to do what?
The radula is a tongue-like organ with rows of teeth that work like files. It is used for scraping and tearing food.
Do octopus have tungs?
yes, it is called the radula. The radula is used to drill holes into the shell of crabs, shrimp, and even clams, through which paralyzing saliva is injected.
Class without the radula in molluscs?
Bivalves do not have a radula.
A radula is a tonguelike organ used by snails to scrape from surfaces?
algae
How does a whitecap limpet get its food?
A whitecap limpet is a sea snail that eats coralline algae using its radula. The radula has teeth that collects the food and is used as a defense against predators.
What is the function of a radula?
A radula is a tongue-like organ located in the mouth of a mollusk. It has rows of backward curving teeth that grasp prey.
What mollusk's radula is covered with?
The radula (often compared to a tongue) is covered with spiny "teeth", sometimes razor sharp. These are used to either scrape algae (in herbivores) or to kill and eat prey.
What A Mollusks Radula Is Covered With?
The radula (often compared to a tongue) is covered with spiny "teeth", sometimes razor sharp. These are used to either scrape algae (in herbivores) or to kill and eat prey.
What is a mollusk and radula is covered with .?
The radula (often compared to a tongue) is covered with spiny "teeth", sometimes razor sharp. These are used to either scrape algae (in herbivores) or to kill and eat prey.
What type of mollusk does not have a radula?
The radula (or some form of the radula) is found in all classes of mollusks except bivalves (organisms with two shells such as clams).
