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Mollusca Classification

1. The document describes several molluscan species including the chiton, tusk shell, freshwater snail Pila globosa, freshwater mussel Unio, and nautilus. 2. Key details are provided about the classification and defining characteristics of each species such as their shell structure, habitat, feeding and locomotion methods. 3. The species represent different molluscan classes - chiton is a polyplacophora, tusk shell is a scaphopod, Pila globosa is a gastropod, freshwater mussel Unio is a bivalve, and nautilus is a cephalopod known for its coiled shell divided into chambers.

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Mollusca Classification

1. The document describes several molluscan species including the chiton, tusk shell, freshwater snail Pila globosa, freshwater mussel Unio, and nautilus. 2. Key details are provided about the classification and defining characteristics of each species such as their shell structure, habitat, feeding and locomotion methods. 3. The species represent different molluscan classes - chiton is a polyplacophora, tusk shell is a scaphopod, Pila globosa is a gastropod, freshwater mussel Unio is a bivalve, and nautilus is a cephalopod known for its coiled shell divided into chambers.

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CHITON

CHITON (Acanthopleuragranulata)
Phylum - Mollusca (organisms that all have soft bodies which typically have a "head" and a "foot" region. Often their
bodies are covered by a hard exoskeleton, as in the shells of snails and clams or the plates of chitons.)
Class - Polyplacophora (Molluscs bearing multiple shell plates)
Order - Neoloricata (comprises the living representatives of the polyplacophoran molluscs, but also includes several
species only known from fossils.)
Genus - Acanthopleura
Species -A. granulata

Character:

1. Body is elliptical or oval in shape, and dorso-ventrally flattened.


2. Shell plates cover the middle portion of the dorsal side. All the shell plates are encircled by the mantle margin like
a girdle called mantle girdle.
3. Foot is very large and occupies the whole ventral surface. Animal remains attached to the rocks
shallow coastal waters with the help of foot. Foot also helps in creeping.
4. Mouth is situated at the anterior end and anus at the posterior end.
5. Respiration takes place by many external gills
DENTALIUM
DENTALIUM - TUSK SHELL or TOOTH SHELL (Dentalium sps.)

CLASSIFICATION:
Phylum - Mollusca(organisms that all have soft bodies which typically have a "head" and a "foot" region. Often their
bodies are covered by a hard exoskeleton, as in the shells of snails and clams or the plates of chitons.)
Class - Scaphopoda (shells are conical and slightly curved to the dorsal side, making the shells look like tiny tusks)
Order - Dentaliida (The order Dentaliida contains most of the larger scaphopods)
Genus – Dentalium

CHARACTER:

1. Shell is slightly curved and tubular. It appears like a tooth or a tusk. It grows to 2 to 5 cm in length.
2. Mouth is surrounded by long thread-like prehensile knobbed processes, captacula used for capturing food.
3. Foot is conical and used for digging and burrowing.
4. It lives in seawater.
PILA
PILA (Pila globosa)
Phylum - Mollusca (organisms that all have soft bodies which typically have a "head" and a "foot" region. Often their
bodies are covered by a hard exoskeleton, as in the shells of snails and clams or the plates of chitons.)
Class - Gastropoda (characterized by the possession of a single (often coiled) shell usually dextral, the axis of coiling
being around a central columella to which a large retractor muscle is attached, and a body that has undergone torsion
so that the pallial cavity faces forwards. They have a well-developed head bearing a pair of cephalic tentacles and
eyes that are primitively situated near the outer bases of the tentacles, The foot is usually rather large and is typically
used for crawling. )
Superfamily - Ampullarioidea (freshwater snails aquatic gastropod molluscs with a gill and an operculum.)
Genus - Pila
Species - P. globosa

Character

1. Shell is spirally coiled and more or less conical.


2. Aperture of the Shell can be closed by a flat operculum attached to the foot. Entire body can be withdrawn into the
shell.
3. Foot is large, highly muscular and conical. It helps in creeping.
4. Head is distinct with 2 pairs of tentacles and eyes.
5. It occurs in fresh water ponds, lakes, paddy fields and moist land.
BIVALVE
BIVALVE – UNIO Fresh water mussel (Unio sps.)
Phylum – Mollusca(organisms that all have soft bodies which typically have a "head" and a "foot" region. Often their
bodies are covered by a hard exoskeleton, as in the shells of snails and clams or the plates of chitons.)
Class -Bivalvia (marine and freshwater molluscs that have laterally compressed bodies enclosed by a shell consisting
of two hinged parts.)
Order -Unionida (The order includes most of the larger freshwater mussels)
Genus - Unio

Characters -

1. Body is enclosed in a brownish and somewhat oval bivalve shell. Two valves of the shell are united
dorsally by hinge ligament.
2. Anterior end of shell is broader than the posterior end.
3. Foot is large, Wedge-shaped and protrudes through the gap between the valves.
4. Mantle lobe produces 2 short tubes, inhalent and exhalent siphons at the aboral end.
5. They are used for takings in and throwing out water for respiration and for other functions.
NAUTILUS
NAUTILUS (Nautilus belauensis)
Phylum - Mollusca(organisms that all have soft bodies which typically have a "head" and a "foot" region. Often their
bodies are covered by a hard exoskeleton, as in the shells of snails and clams or the plates of chitons.)
Class - Cephalopoda( "head-feet" , exclusively marine animals are characterized by bilateral body symmetry, a
prominent head, and a set of arms or tentacles (muscular hydrostats) modified from the primitive molluscan foot.)
Subclass - Nautiloidea (swimming animals that possess a head with two simple lens-free eyes and arms (or
tentacles). They have a smooth shell over a large body chamber, which is divided into subchambers filled with an
inert gas)
Order - Nautilida
Genus – Nautilus
Species - belauensis
Character
1.Body is enclosed in a spirally coiled many-chambered shell, which is external,
2. Animal occupies the outermost chamber, which is the largest.
3. Chambers of the shell are separated by septa which are perforated in the middle and t raversed by a
vascular tubular prolongation called the siphuncle.
4. Chambers contain air so that the animal can float and swim easily.
5. It lives along the shores and coral reefs in the Indian and South Pacific oceans.

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