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What are soft bodied animals?
Soft-bodied animals are those that lack a hard external skeleton or shell for support and protection. This includes animals such as jellyfish, sea slugs, worms, and octopuses. They may have soft, flexible bodies that allow for movement and flexibility.
What are some soft bodied animals that usually have a shell?
Soft bodied animals that usually have a shell include clams, oysters, and mussels. Some others are squid, octopus, and crustaceans.
Are mollusks soft bodied?
Mollusks are soft bodied animals that can have no shells,1 shell or even 2 shells. Snails, clams, sea slugs, clams, scallops, oysters, octopuses, and squid, are some types of Mollusks.
What are hermit crab shell use for?
As their protection. They are soft bodied animals and the shells serve as armor for their vunerable bodies.
What does mollusc mean?
Its a soft bodied hard shelled animal, some folk say food in a shell. Slugs are defined as land snails with no shell but I sure wouldn't eat them.
Why is an octopus related more to a clam than a lobster?
A Lobster is in the Phylum Arthropoda, it has an exoskeleton and jointed legs. The exoskeleton is made of chitin and has to be shed as the animal grows.An Octopus is in the Phylum Mollusca and is soft bodied. It has legs but they are a smooth soft extension of their bodies.A clam is in the Phylum Mollusca and is soft bodied. While it has a shell, the shell is a calcified structure that increases in size by deposition and is not shed as the animal grows.
Are worms anthropods?
No, worms are not arthropods. Arthropods are invertebrates with an exoskeleton, segmented body, and jointed appendages, such as insects, spiders, and crustaceans. Worms, on the other hand, are soft-bodied invertebrates belonging to phyla such as Annelida or Nematoda.
What are soft-bodied invertebrates are called?
Soft-bodied invertebrates are called mollusks, mollusks are snails, snails are mollusks because snail have soft bodies.
Which soft bodied group of animals includes snails sea slugs oysters and octopuses?
They would be Mollusks, (phylum Mollusca), a soft-bodied invertebrate with an unsegmented body, one muscular foot for mobility, a visceral hump, and a mantle. Most have shells, but in the case of the slug, which it has no shell. I hope that answered your question. :)
Are worms soft-bodied?
Yes
What is the characteristics of a mollusk?
Mollusks are soft-bodied invertebrates with a muscular foot, a head, and a mantle that may secrete a protective shell. They also have a radula for feeding and a coelom for internal organs. Mollusks exhibit a wide range of shell shapes and sizes, and include animals like snails, clams, octopuses, and squids.
What characteristics do all mollusks share that separate this phylum from other phyla in the kingdom animalia?
All mollusks possess a soft body covered by a hard shell, a muscular foot for movement, and a mantle that secretes the shell. These characteristics distinguish mollusks from other phyla in the animal kingdom.
