Diversity in Living Organisms


   
 
Phylum Mollusca
Features of Mollusca
 
 
Aquatic in habitat but some land forms are also seen
 
Body is soft and divided into three regions (head, dorsal visceral mass and ventral foot)
 
Body enclosed in a hard calcareous shell
 
Breathe through gills, land molluscs have lungs
 
Sexes are separate
 
Example: Chiton, Pila (snail), unio (fresh water mussel), octopus
 
  
     
   
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