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scaphopod
burrowing marine mollusk
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gastropod, univalve
a class of mollusks typically having a one-piece coiled shell and flattened muscular foot with a head bearing stalked eyes
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chiton, coat-of-mail shell, polyplacophore, sea cradle
primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates
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bivalve, lamellibranch, pelecypod
marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together
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cephalopod, cephalopod mollusk
marine mollusk characterized by well-developed head and eyes and sucker-bearing tentacles
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tooth shell, tusk shell
any of various seashore mollusks having a tapering tubular shell open at each end and a foot pointed like a spade for burrowing
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abalone, ear-shell
any of various large edible marine gastropods of the genus Haliotis having an ear-shaped shell with pearly interior
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conch
any of various edible tropical marine gastropods of the genus Strombus having a brightly-colored spiral shell with large outer lip
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snail
freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell
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slug
any of various terrestrial gastropods having an elongated slimy body and no external shell
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seasnail
any of several creeping marine gastropods with a spirally coiled shell: whelks; tritons; moon shells; neritids
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Ancylus fluviatilis, freshwater limpet, river limpet
minute conical gastropod superficially resembling a limpet but living and feeding on freshwater plants
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nudibranch, sea slug
any of various marine gastropods of the suborder Nudibranchia having a shell-less and often beautifully colored body
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Aplysia punctata, sea hare
naked marine gastropod having a soft body with reduced internal shell and two pairs of ear-like tentacles
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bubble shell
marine gastropod mollusk having a very small thin shell
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physa
any member of the genus Physa
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cowrie, cowry
any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked shells
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aplacophoran, solenogaster
deep-water wormlike mollusks lacking calcareous plates on the body but having fine slimy spicules on the covering mantle
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clam
burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud; the shell closes with viselike firmness
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cockle
common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs
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oyster
marine mollusks having a rough irregular shell; found on the sea bed mostly in coastal waters
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ark shell
marine bivalve mollusk having a heavy toothed shell with a deep boat-like inner surface
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blood clam
red-blooded clam
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mussel
marine or freshwater bivalve mollusk that lives attached to rocks etc.
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escallop, scallop, scollop
edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions
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piddock
marine bivalve that bores into rock or clay or wood by means of saw-like shells
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chambered nautilus, nautilus, pearly nautilus
cephalopod of the Indian and Pacific oceans having a spiral shell with pale pearly partitions
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dibranch, dibranchiate, dibranchiate mollusk
cephalopods having two gills
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octopod
a cephalopod with eight arms but lacking an internal shell
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decapod
cephalopods having eight short tentacles plus two long ones