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What are the salient features of Phylum Mollusca?
Asked by Topperlearning User | 09 May, 2016, 07:12: AM
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Salient features of Phylum Mollusca:

i. Members of Phylum Mollusca are bilaterally symmetrical and soft-bodied.

ii. Their body is divided into an anterior head, ventral muscular foot and dorsal visceral mass.

iii. Visceral mass is covered by a specialized tissue called mantle, formed from the folds of the dorsal body wall.

iv. Members of Phylum Mollusca respire through ctenidia, mantle or lungs.

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