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Molluscs can also carry angiostrongyliasis, a disease caused by the worms of the Angiostrongylus spp., which can occur after voluntarily or inadvertently consuming raw snails, slugs, other mollusks and even unwashed fruits and vegetables.
The Gemological Institute of America and World Jewellery Confederation now use the simple term "pearl"—or, where appropriate, the more-descriptive term "non-nacreous pearl"—for such items, [15] and, under Federal Trade Commission rules, various mollusk pearls may be referred to as "pearls" without qualification.
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 ]
The mystery mollusks are hermaphrodites, which include both male and female reproductive organs. When it is time to release eggs, they descend and use their foot to temporarily attach to the seafloor.
(in Spanish) List of Chilean molluscs; Further reading. Ashton T. (2007). A Field Guide to Molluscs of Northern Chile. 112 pp.
This space contains the mollusk's gills, anus, osphradium, nephridiopores, and gonopores. The mantle cavity functions as a respiratory chamber in most mollusks. In bivalves it is usually part of the feeding structure. In some mollusks the mantle cavity is a brood chamber, and in cephalopods and some bivalves such as scallops, it is a locomotory ...
They are marine animals with a leathery skin and an elongated body containing a single, branched gonad. They are found on the sea floor worldwide. They are found on the sea floor worldwide. The number of known holothurian ( / ˌ h ɒ l ə ˈ θj ʊər i ə n , ˌ h oʊ l ə -/ HOL -ə- THURE -ee-ən, HOH -lə- ) [ 1 ] [ 2 ] species worldwide is ...
Malacology [a] is the branch of invertebrate zoology that deals with the study of the Mollusca (molluscs or mollusks), the second-largest phylum of animals in terms of described species [1] after the arthropods. Mollusks include snails and slugs, clams, and cephalopods, along with numerous other kinds, many of which have shells.