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