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Which group of invertebrates has a mantle?
Mollusks have a mantle, which is a thin layer of tissue that covers their body and secretes the shell in shelled mollusks. The mantle plays a key role in respiration, excretion, and shell formation in mollusks.
What is the thin layer of tissue on a mollusks shell?
The thin layer of tissue that covers the body of a mollusk is called the "mantle."
Explain where the mantle is and what it does for mollusks?
The mantle is the fold of tissue which protects the inside mass. If a shell is not present, then the mantle forms it.
What group of invertebrates has a mantle?
Mollusks have a mantle, which is a protective layer of tissue that covers their soft body. The mantle plays a role in shell formation and can also secrete mucus for locomotion or defense.
Mollusks that have a single shell or no shell?
Cephalopods
What covers mollusks bodys?
Mollusks have soft body and hard shells but some don't even have shells.
What is a mollusks defense?
Its shell.
What group of invertebrate has a shell?
An invertebrate that has a soft body and a shell is called exosceloton.
Are mollusks not invertebrates because some have outer shell?
Mollusks are invertebrates
Are mollusks not invertebrates because some have an outer shell?
Mollusks are invertebrates
What two features do cephalopods share with humans that other mollusks do not?
Cephalopods are a phylum of mollusks that include squids, octopi, the chambered nautilus, and cuttlefish. All cephalopods have tentacles, most are carnivores, and they are all mollusks. All mollusks have a radula, or toothy tongue, a mantle, or thin layer of tissue that covers the organs and makes the shell, and a muscular foot.
What covers the body of mollusks?
a shell
