It is also found on the carapace of crabs and Limulus, and on mollusks.
If Tartlet complains, it is because he does not like mollusks!
The mollusks and echinoderms show the least disposition for it, and the platodes, vermalia, and articulates the most.
Among the mollusks we must note the evolution of the cephalopods.
Then the flat worms and mollusks took to a creeping mode of life, while the annelids and vertebrates still swam.
The reason why some mollusks have thus lost their shells is clear enough.
The ne plus ultra of mollusks to the collector is without doubt the genus Cypraea, comprising the cowry shells.
We shall now turn our attention to the highest order of mollusks—the cephalopods.
The second class embraces the mollusks, or animals inhabiting shells.
A decided tendency to this departure from the type is a feature of the mollusks.
1783, mollusque (modern spelling from 1839), from French mollusque, from Modern Latin Mollusca (see Mollusca), the phylum name. Related: Molluscuous; molluscan.
A phylum of invertebrates with soft bodies and muscular feet. Some mollusks also have hard shells. Oysters, clams, snails, slugs, octopuses, and squid are mollusks.
