The function of a mantle on a mollusk is the same as the respiratory system in mammals. It is also part of the feeding structure in bivalves.
Are you asking what is the function of the mantle? It produces the shell.
actually the mantle is a layer in which the inner organs are secured. and this layer forms a hard calcareous material on its outer side, which consequently forms the shell.
The mantle produces a mollusk's shell and covers its internal organs.
Snails, clams,squid, cuttlefish, octopi
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The mantle of the mollusk helps it protect its delecate skull and grows and shrinks when detectiong danger. The mantle also grows when sexually urged by female mollusks and the mollusk with the largest mantle wins over its mate.
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The mantle (the inner portion of the mantle to be exact).
The shell is secreted by the mantle.
They are located in the mantle cavity.
They are located in the mantle cavity.
A mollusk respires through structures called ctenidia (gills), which are housed in the mantle cavity of most mollusks. The mantle cavity is a space between the mollusk's main body and its mantle, an organ with numerous important functions, including shell creation and osmoregulation.