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Molluska. Cephalopoda. Tetrabranchiata et Dibranchiata

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Molluska. Cephalopoda. Tetrabranchiata et Dibranchiata

Description

Phylum Mollusca
Class Cephalopoda

Marine Tetrabranchiata.
1) Nautilus. Planispiral, external, exogastric shell, with perforated septa through which a cord of living tissue called a siphuncle goes, which extends from the visceral mass. At the anterior end a circle of tentacles are covered by a hood.
Dibranchiata. 4) Spirula, living in deep waters, with an internal coiled shell (5).
Argonauta (Octopoda). 6, 7) Male with a modified arm as an intromittent organ, called a hectocotylus, closed in a bag and evaginated.
8) Female with its coiled nidamental shell.
10) Spermatophore.

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wallchart

Subject


• Zoologia, Molluschi, Cefalopodi, Tavola didattica

Object languages:

German

Sources


• Cassettiera B - 1

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