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Adductor Muscles
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Used by pelecypods to close their shells
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Gastropoda
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Largest class of mollusks
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Foot
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Muscular structure in mollusks used for movement
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Viscoral Mass
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Excretory digestive and circulatory structures
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Chromatophores
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Cells which enable cephalopods to change color
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Cephalopoda
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Class name means "head-foot"
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Pelecypoda
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Class of mollusks that contains bivalves ex:oysters, scallops, and clams
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Scaphopoda
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Class of mollusks that have cylindrical shell open at both ends and resembling a tooth
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Radula
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Scraping tool for feeding
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Mantle
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Structure which secretes the mollusk shell
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Periostracum
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Thin organic coating, or "skin", which is the outer layer of the shell
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Pearly (nacreous)
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appearance of a valuable pearl
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Prismatic
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The ostracum layer of the shell is described as
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Byssal Threads
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Sticky threads for stabilization
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Poly Placophora
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Class whose specimans have 8 plates therefore polyplacophora means "many plates"
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Excretory Gland
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known as "green gland"
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Telson
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The last abdominal segment of an aquatic arthopod
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What type of circulatory system do arthopods have?
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Open
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Horseshoe Crabs
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Use blue gills to respire
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Cephalothorax
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Fused head and thorax of crustaceans
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Molting
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periodic shedding of the exosceleton in Arthopods
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Antenna
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sensory structure used in crustaceans used for taste, touch, and equilibrium
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Rostrum
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sharp anterior projection of the carpace un crayfish, lobsters, and shrimp
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What does arthopoda mean
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"joined foot"
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Statocyst
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used for equilibrium in some atrthopods
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Radial
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type of symmetry that adult echinoderms have
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Bilateral
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type of symmetry that larval echinoderms have
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Ossicles
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Skeleton of most echinoderms, made up of calcareous plates
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Aboral
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surface of most echinoderms where madreporite is located
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Tiedemann Body
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on inner surface of ring canal and produce amebocyts in echinoderms
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Endoskeleton
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Skeleton on inside of body
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Oral
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Surface of echinoderms where the mouth is located
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Pylonic
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upper stomach chamber, smaller
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Ophiuroidea
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class that includes brittle starts and basket stars
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Madreponte
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also referred to as sieve plate
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Mandibles
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Jaws of crustacians
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Ommatidum
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The basic unit of the compound eye of a crustacean
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Swimmerets
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used by crustations to hold eggs by females
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Number of species in subphylum crustacea
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40,000
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Arthropod's body is made up of...
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head and thorax
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Chitin and proteins
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Make up exoskeleton of an arthropod
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Carapace
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the heavy shield covering the cephalothorax
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Maxillipoda
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contains copepods, branchiurans, barnicles, and ostracods
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Sea Spiders
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Class pycnogonida
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Horseshoe Crabs
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Class Merostomata
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