Biology (MindTap Course List)
Biology (MindTap Course List)
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Author: Eldra Solomon, Charles Martin, Diana W. Martin, Linda R. Berg
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To describe: The main characteristics of mollusks and of the four clades of mollusks by giving examples of each group.

Introduction: The Lophotrochozoa is one of the two major classes of protozoans that include the bilateral animals. They are triploblastic animals and most of them have a true coelom and a tube-within-a-tube body plan. The Lophotrochozoa includes the platyhelminthes (flatworms), rotifers, nemerteans, mollusks, annelids, and lophophorate phyla.

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