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invertebrates in the Mollusca phylum; these animals have a soft, unsegmented body and are bilaterally symmetrical. Most have a muscular foot, calcareous shell, and gills. This phyla includes terrestrial as well as fresh and salt water forms. Common examples are clams, snails, slugs, and octopuses.
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Sea animals usually with no shell, that have no backbone
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Animals with a soft body and often a hard shell. Most live in water, but a few are found on land. Examples: clams, snails, squid, octopi
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An animal phylum that includes bivalves ( mussels), snails, slugs, and nudibranches.
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Class of invertebrates in the animal kingdom that includes slugs, mussels and squid
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Invertebrates with soft bodies usually inside a shell, for example, clams, oysters, and mussels
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Pertaining to the phylum Mollusca, including chitons, tusk shells, oysters, snails, slugs, nudibranchs, squid and octopuses.
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soft bodied, shelled animals such as clams, oysters, nudibraches and octopi (the latter two have either small remnant shell within their bodies or an embryonic shell)
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invertebrate animals, including a variety of marine, fresh water and terrestrial snails; clams, oysters, mussels, scallops; squids, octopus, pearly nautilus, as well as the many extinct varieties.
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A group of soft-bodied invertebrates that includes snails, clams and squids. Most mollusks have some sort of hard external shell.
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invertebrate animals, most of which have calcium carbonate shells, such as clams.
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