Transcript Mollusca2
Phylum.
Mollusca
Aplacophora √
Class. Polyplacophora √
Class. Monoplacophora
Class. Gastropoda
Class. Cephalopoda
Class. Bivalvia
Class. Scaphopoda
Class.
Aplacophora
Polyplacophora
Bivalvia
Scaphopoda
Monoplacophora
Mouth
Nerve cord
Nephridium
Ctenidium
Gonads
Heart atria
Pedal retractor
muscle
Anus
Monoplacophora
• Extant spp discovered in 1952
• Only 20 spp, all marine, deep water zones (18007000m).
• Poorly studied
• Likely ancestor of gastropods, cephalopods and bivalves,
and the bivalvia and scaphopods
• Monoplacophorans and Polyplacophorans evolved shells
independently from a shell-less ancestor. Evidence:
shells differ in internal layer structure
• Superficially similar to gastropod limpets
Gastropoda
Gastropoda
• Most diverse taxon of mollusca
• Estimates range from 40,000-100,000 spp
(probably 60,000 extant, 15,000 extinct spp)
• Three major groups:
– Prosobranchs – benthic marine spp
– Opisthobranchs – secondary loss of the shell
– Pulmonates – air breathers
Torsion is unique to gastropods
Most gastropods are dextral
Pretorsion
Post torsion
Prosobranch
Opisthobranch
Pulmonata
Prosobranchs
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Mantle cavity anterior, due to torsion
Most common, typical “snail”
Mostly marine, some freshwater, terrestrial
Most primitive group of gastropods
Opisthobranchs
• Mantle cavity lateral or posterior, due to
detorsion or loss of shell
• ca 2000 spp. e.g. nudibranchs (sea hares, sea
slugs)
• Ctendia often lost. Gas exchange via cerata
Pulmonata
• Highly vascularized mantle for
gas exchange (lung)
• 17,000 spp: slugs, pond snails
Gastropoda
• More active than mono and polyplacophorans
– Highly cephalized: tentacles, eyes
• Gonochoristic (dioecious)
• Veliger larva (an advanced version of the
trochophore larva)
Veliger larva
Metanephridium
Velum
Shell
Stomach
Digestive
cecum
Foot
Esophagus
Cephalopoda
Cephalopoda
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Swift, agile carnivores
Closed circulatory system, 2 hearts
Separate sexes
Foot modified to form arms, tentacles, siphon
Brain, cranium, complex image-forming eye
700 extant spp, 10,000 extinct spp
Arose from limpet-like monoplacophorans
Ergo, ventral became functional anterior, etc
Cephalopoda
Posterior surface
Right
Ventral
Dorsal
Left
Cephalopod eye
Iris
Retina
Optic nerves
Lens
Cornea
eye
Optic lobe
Buccal ganglia
Cerebral ganglion
statocyst
esophagus
Brachial nerves
Brain is surrounded by a cranium
Cephalopoda
• Ectocochleate cephalopods
– Have external shell with internally subdivisions
used for buoyancy control
– This ancestral group is almost completely extinct
– E.g. Nautilus
Cephalopoda
• Endocochleate cephalopds
– Reduced internal shell, or shell absent
– Squids, cuttlefish, octopi
Tentacle
Arm
Funnel (siphon)
Collar
Eye
Fin
Shell (Pen)
Systemic
heart
Branchial heart
Ctenidium
Funnel
Hectocotylus (sperm-bearing arm in males)
Reproduction: trochophore and veliger are bypassed and hatch into planktonic juveniles
Nautilus is the only cephalopod with an external
shell and lacking chromatophores
Chromatophores (color cells)
Iridocytes (reflective cells)
- Millions of these allow rapid changes in color,
polarized signals
- Also have photophores for bioluminescence
Cephalopods except Nautilus have ink sac
Bivalvia
Bivalvia (Pelecypoda)
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8000 extant spp (1300 fw, 6700 marine)
Specialized for infaunal habitat
Sessile, little cephalization
Filter feeders, using gills
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3 major groups of bivalves based on gill shape
Protobranchs (deposit feeders, most primitive)
Lammelibranchs (suspension feeders, most common)
Septibranchs (carnivores, most derived)
Protobranchs
• Gills for gas exchange only
• Tend to live in deeper waters
(>1000m)
Lamellibranchs
• Gills: gas exchange + filter feeding
• Incurrent siphon, excurrent siphon
Cut-away of
gill structure
Hinge
Blood vessel
mouth
Ctenidium
Excurrent
siphon
Foot
Incurrent
siphon
Locomotion
Glochidia
glochidium
Glochidia on gills
Freshwater mussels
Septibranch
• Ctenidia lack filaments
• Feed on polychaetes, crustaceans
• Weird side group
Scaphopoda
• Shared (extinct)
common ancestor
with bivalves
• 300-400 spp
• Lack ctenidia, heart
• Burrowers
• Have 100-200
captacula (tentacles)
with which to catch food