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The Mollusca

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Animal Life in Fresh Water

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Abstract

The Fresh-water Snails, Limpets, and Mussels belong to the Phylum Mollusca, a large group of animals having soft bodies without any sign of segmentation, a fold of the body wall (mantle) outside which is usually a hard external shell. Inside this the whole animal can be withdrawn. Most of the fresh-water forms are reasonably large so that their habits can be studied in a laboratory or classroom without the aid of a microscope; many species live well in an aquarium.

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  1. Department of Zoology, University of Sheffield, UK

    Helen Mellanby M.D., Ph.D. (Formerly Demonstrator)

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Mellanby, H. (1963). The Mollusca. In: Animal Life in Fresh Water. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5849-4_12

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