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What is a shelled animal?
A shell is a hard, rigid outer layer, which has evolved in a very wide variety of different animals, including mollusks, sea urchins, crustaceans, tur...
What is a mollusc with a spiral shell called?
A whorl is a single, complete 360° revolution or turn in the spiral growth of a mollusc shell. A spiral configuration of the shell is found in numerou...
What are molluscs like?
The generalized mollusc is bilaterally symmetrical and has a single, "limpet-like" shell on top. The shell is secreted by a mantle covering the upper ...
What is the answer for shells that are held together by muscle and teeth.?
What holds shells together?What is the name of the two muscles that work together to keep the shells closed?Which class of mollusk has two shells joi...
Is a slug a Mollusc's?
slug, any mollusk of the class Gastropoda in which the shell is reduced to an internal plate or a series of granules or is completely absent. The term...
Is a limpet univalve or a bivalve?
The freshwater mollusks include two classes, the Gastropoda (snails and limpets) and the Bivalvia (clams and mussels). What is a limpet classified as?...
What animals are univalves?
Gastropods, snails, have only one shell, which usually coils in a spiral and has a wide opening at one end. Gastropods are also called univalves. Biva...
How can you tell the age of seashells?
2 Answers Examine the shell's ridges with a magnifying glass. Tabulate the number of ridges. You can approximate by number of cell per unit length. Di...
Why does a turtle shell turn soft?
Most likely, your turtle's shell is soft because it has metabolic bone disease. Metabolic bone disease is often caused by poor diet or poor lighting, ...