mollusc

Many molluscs have tentacles.

There are two types of mollusc that are actively venomous.

Unlike other molluscs, bivalves lack a radula and feature labial palps, which carry food from the gills to the mouth.

To avoid sampling bias, they restricted their analysis to one group of animals—the bivalve molluscs—that fossilise well.

The mollusc has a hard shell to protect itself.

Some molluscs are used as food, such as clams and oysters.

Molluscs play an important role in marine ecosystems.

The scientist studied the anatomy of the mollusc.

Molluscs can be found in various habitats, from oceans to freshwater lakes.

The mollusc extended its tentacles to catch prey.

Some molluscs produce pearls as a defense mechanism.

Molluscs are known for their diverse shapes and sizes.

The mollusc retreated into its shell when threatened.

Molluscs are a popular subject of study in biology due to their unique characteristics.

Pearls contain a mixture of protein and calcium carbonate secreted by certain types of molluscs.

Most crocodilians, he reminded people, preferred to dine on fish or molluscs rather than farmers.

In the Pantanal, there really is plenty for everyone, and it's all thanks to a mollusc.

What does it mean to think What equipment is needed to think? Do molluscs have such equipment?

Of course, molluscs are vital links in the complex chain of life. - Hm.

Was it me and my mollusc friends, with our amazing mantles and single foot?

There are more species of molluscs in the ocean than any other animal phylum.

They were as two horns which the sluggish heath had put forth from its crown, like a mollusc, and had now again drawn in.

Most of the main groups of the animal kingdom—arthropods, brachiopods, coelenterates, echinoderms, molluscs and even chordates, the branch from which vertebrates went on to develop—are found in the fossil beds of the Cambrian.

Several introductions of damaging insects have been attacked successfully by further introductions of critters that eat them—though this has not worked so well for voracious introduced molluscs called giant African land snails.