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The three primary characteristics of mollusks are a mantle with a cavity for breathing and excretion, a radula, and the structure of the nervous system. Squid and other cephalopods have all of these characteristics.

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polycepoda means - many head foot, which describes an octopus rather well - don't you think?

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The squid is in the Mollusca group because it is an invertebrate (it has no backbone).

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because, it is soft organism.

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