MOLLUSCS
Invertebrate
Invertebrate
AFRICAN GIANT SNAIL
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MOLLUSCS
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With shell
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Without Shell
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After insects, molluscs are the largest group of animals.
- They have soft, muscular bodies, often covered with a shell.
- The largest mollusc is the Giant Clam.
- Most Clams begin life as males, but half of them turn female when older.
- The oldest animal ever found was a 405-year old Icelandic Clam. It was killed by researchers trying to work out its age.
- Crabs have hairs on their claws and other parts of their body to detect water current and vibration.
- The Giant Arctic Jellyfish tentacles ca reach 120 feet.
- The pupil if an Octopus is rectangular.
- Have three hearts.
- The Giant Pacific Octopus can squeeze its entire body through a hole the size of its beak.
- Octopus parents embrace their young to clean them.
- A baby Oyster is called a 'spat'.
- Oysters can change gender depending upon which is best for mating.
- Scallops have up to 100 eyes around the edge of the shell.
- Scallops are bi-valves.
- Scallops are free-swimmers. They swim by clapping their shells together quickly, moving a jet of water past the shell hinge and propelling them forward.
- Scallops caught in Brittany are shipped to China for cleaning and then sent back to France to be cooked and eaten!
- Slugs have four noses.
- If a snail loses its eye, it can grow another one.
- The African Giant Snail lays up to 1,200 eggs per year.
- A snail can sleep for three years.
- The Giant Squid's eye can measure up to 25cm in diameter.
- A Squid has 10 tentacles.
Visit: Mollusc . COLLECTIVE NOUNS, SIMILES, IDIOMS METAPHORS and EXPRESSIONS
A SCALLOP - The blue orbs are its eyes
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COCKLE
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OPEN OYSTER
SQUID
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SNAIL
LIMPET SHELL WITH BARNACLES
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CUTTLEFISH
GIANT CLAM
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OCTOPUS
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CHITON
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