CLASSIFICATION
NINE COMMON ANIMAL PHYLA
Question
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Jelly Fish
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Coral
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Snails
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Worms
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Detailed explanation-1: -The class of molluscs called Bivalvia (from Latin root words bi-meaning two and-valv meaning folding door) includes clams, oysters, mussels, and scallops. Bivalves produce two shells that are hinged at the top (Fig. 3.49 B). The mantle of snails (gastropods) produces a single shell in a spiral shape (Fig.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Class Gastropoda (in Phylum Mollusca) includes the groups pertaining to snails and slugs. The majority of gastropods have a single, usually spirally, coiled shell into which the body can be withdrawn. The shell of these creatures is often what is recovered in a fossil dig.
Detailed explanation-3: -The animals belonging to the phylum Mollusca have soft-bodies, triploblastic and bilaterally symmetrical and coelomate. The study of Mollusca is called Malacology. They are sluggish invertebrates, with a thin fleshy envelope or mantle covering the visceral organs.
Detailed explanation-4: -Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (/ˈmɒləsk/).
Detailed explanation-5: -The gastropods (/ˈɡæstrəpɒdz/), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (/ɡæsˈtrɒpədə/).