mollusk

[ US /ˈmɑɫəsk/ ]
NOUN
  1. invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell
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  • Distinct from their nautiloid relatives, and alone among all mollusks, coleoids lack a shell. Archive 2008-02-01
  • Mollusks are the second most diverse group of plants and animals in the world.
  • As gardeners already know, all other slugs and snails (or gastropod mollusks, to the experts) sport a soft and slimy foot.
  • These taxa consist of a broad array of organisms, including foraminifers, corals, bryozoans, mollusks, echinoderms, and fish.
  • Fish biologists descend in bathyspheres and submarines to the deepest oceanic canyon, and trawlers scrape up odd saltwater nematodes and mollusks from the bottom sediments.
  • The success of this cosmopolitan mollusk has much to do with its prowess as a swash rider.
  • We do have pages on the Solenogastres and the worm-like Caudofoveata, as well as the chitons and some early shelled mollusks, the Rostroconchia.
  • Clams reproduce sexually and like most mollusks they are hermaphroditic, although some soft shelled clams are dioecious, meaning they have distinct genders. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
  • Raup analyzed different types of mollusk conchs in terms of their geometrical properties.
  • These can be either digitate forms, where the mollusks lived between small stromatolite fingers, or larger, domal stromatolite masses, which created areas where mollusks clustered.
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