/'“Jersey Cape NATURALLY"

Figure I: Structure of a mollusc.

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by Wendy Beard Allen

Picking up shells as one strolls along the beach is a pastime many enjoy, but now- many of us think about the animal that once lived in the shell? Shells are merely the external coverings produced by a living animal. Shelled animals belong to a group of organisms known as molluscs. In general, a

mollusc is a soft-bodied

animal usually covered by a calcareous shell. sisting of a head which con-. Most of these-animalS efx- ' tains mouth and eye parts; hibit a common overall a foot, useful jn motility structure (figure I) con- and/or burrowing; a man- J t tie, from which the shelji r. /,., >,«.,/ velig., /.in.i ' forming calcium carbonate . is secreted; and the bulk of

the body formed by the visceral mass which

envelops the digestiye-and

respiratory organs.

A mollusc begins its life as a fertile, single-celled egg. The egg develops into a ciliated, microscopic, frfeeswimming larva. In this form th^ young mollusc is at the mercy of the environment. If it survives it will develop into another freeswimming form, the veliger larva, (Figure 2 & 3). Dur-

ing this stage, the larva

develops the characteristic features associated with the

adult mollusc.

Text and Illustrations by Wendy Beard Allen from the poster, "The Mollusc and Its Home," published by the Wetlands In-

stitute.

l-igure 3: t'elfaer Litva of u guitropod.

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