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Mollusks

Mollusks is a large, diverse phylum of invertebrates. Types of mollusks range from small (snails and slugs) to large (octopus and giant squid).

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What level consumer is a snail?

Your face. I just wasted five minutes creating that amazing logical answer for this stupid science project and its PISSING MAH OFF GURL so find the answer yourself

Is the nudibranch a decomposer?

No the nudibranch is a carnavore.

How do zebra mussels affect humans?

This species is certainly not endangered, as it has been introduced into many countries and has become detrimental to local mussel populations.

How many eggs do sea urchins lay?

Yes, In fact, A female sea urchin can lay up to 500 million eggs in her lifetime. These eggs are released out into the sea. A male sea urchin releases billions of sperm cells. When the egg and sperm meet, the baby sea urchin floats around until it matures.

What do mollusks use to exchange carbon dioxide with oxygen from the water?

Snails breath through their skin and through their gills, which are often located in an area called the mantle. However different types of snails have different methods for breathing. They most certainly do not breath through their mouths.

How do you know if a snail is male or female land snail?

All snails are neither male / female. they have both gender organs.

A mollusk with one shell or none?

The mollusc (or mollusk) shell is typically a calcareous exoskeleton which encloses, supports and protects the soft parts of an animal in the phylum Molluscae, like snails, clams, tusk shells, and several other classes.

Where do conch shells come form?

On the beaches of tropical coastlines.

you can find them around waves of shells on the ocean floor to. you have to look for the spiral tips of the shell sticking out of the sand and then dig them out.

Do mollusks have a complete digestive system?

complete complex with salivary gland,digestive gland and rasping tongue (radula)

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What animals are members of the mollusk family?

Superregnum: Eukaryota

Regnum: Animalia

Subregnum: Eumetazoa

Superphylum: Protostomia

Phylum: Mollusca

Classis: Cephalopoda

Subclassis: Coleoidea

Cohors: Neocoleoidea

Superordo: Octopodiformes

Ordo: Octopoda

Subordo: Cirrina

Familia: Cirroteuthidae - Grimpoteuthididae - Luteuthididae - Opisthoteuthidae - Stauroteuthidae

There are a lot of them. I've given you one small branch of phylum Mollusca down to subordo Cirrinahere, for the full list you should explore Wikispieces on Wikipedia.

What features are found in all mollusks?

The characteristics of Mollusks are as follows: They have unsegmented soft body. They most have internal or external shell; they have a mantle, a fold in the body wall that secretes the hard protective shell, they have muscular foot and/or tentacles, they have a radula, a toothed structure used to grate food and they have two pairs of gills except in polmonate snails.

What are unique features of molluscs?

they live in water...

Octopus and giant squid is a mollusk...

yeah...

Is mussel a crustacean?

No because a crustacean has a exoskeleton and a mussel has a shell

What is the name of a terrestrial mollusc without shell?

Of the 100,000 different species of mollusk, a good many of them do, but some don't. Mollusca also includes the squid, the octopus and the slug. The first two have an internal structure that might be called an "internal shell" or the like. It should be noted that they completely decompose leaving only their beak. Slugs don't have shells or "hard" internal structures of any kind. A link can be found below to review the different creatures that are members of this phylum.