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Cellana exarata, common name the black-foot ʻopihi and Hawaiian blackfoot [1] is a species of edible true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Nacellidae, one of the families of true limpets. ‘Opihi are significant in Hawaiian history where they have had many uses such as food, tools, and jewelry.
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Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks [a] (/ ˈ m ɒ l ə s k s /). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda . [ 5 ]
Plebidonax deltoides or Donax deltoides is a small, edible saltwater clam or marine bivalve mollusc, endemic to Australia. It belongs to the family of either the Donacidae, or the related Psammobiidae. It is most widely known as the pipi (also spelled pippi, plural pipis or pippies) in the eastern states of its native Australia.
Molluscs have such diverse shapes that many textbooks base their descriptions of molluscan anatomy on a generalized or hypothetical ancestral mollusc. This generalized mollusc is unsegmented and bilaterally symmetrical with an underside consisting of a single muscular foot. [67] [68]: 484–628 Beyond that it has three further key features.
The mollusks or molluscs are the large and diverse phylum Mollusca. Subcategories. ... Molluscs and humans (7 C, 1 P) I. Individual molluscs (1 C, 3 P) M. Malacology ...
The mollusc (or mollusk [spelling 1]) shell is typically a calcareous exoskeleton which encloses, supports and protects the soft parts of an animal in the phylum Mollusca, which includes snails, clams, tusk shells, and several other classes. Not all shelled molluscs live in the sea; many live on the land and in freshwater.
Charonia tritonis, common name the Triton's trumpet, the giant triton or pū [1] is a species of very large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Charoniidae, the tritons. [2] Reaching up to two feet (or 60 cm) in shell length this is one of the biggest mollusks in the coral reef.