We found 1 definitions of phylum mollusca from 1 different sources.
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phylum mollusca - gastropods; bivalves; cephalopods; chitons | ||
Mollusca, phylum Mollusca | ||
phylum (biology) the major taxonomic group of animals and plants; contains classes | ||
animal kingdom, animalia, kingdom animalia taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animals | ||
mollusc, mollusk, shellfish invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell | ||
class scaphopoda, scaphopoda small class of bilaterally symmetrical marine forms comprising the tooth shells | ||
class gasteropoda, class gastropoda, gasteropoda, gastropoda snails and slugs and their relatives | ||
class polyplacophora, polyplacophora small class of marine mollusks comprising the chitons; sometimes considered an order of the subclass Amphineura | ||
bivalvia, class bivalvia, class lamellibranchia, class pelecypoda, lamellibranchia oysters; clams; scallops; mussels |