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are molluscs

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A soft-bodied invertebrate of the phylum Mollusca, typically with a hard shell of one or more pieces.

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Snails are molluscs, starfish are echinoderms and jellyfish are coelenterates.

Some 20% of the animals listed are Molluscs.

Even better, from an environmental point of view, are molluscs such as mussels, clams and oysters.

Cephalopods are molluscs, and weird ones at that when compared to the other mollusc groups: chitons, solenogastres, caudofoveatans, bivalves, scaphopods, gastropods and monoplacophorans.

Debate occurs about whether some Ediacaran and Early Cambrian fossils really are molluscs.

Various non-insect arthropods are eaten, as are molluscs and crustaceans where available, earthworms, and even vertebrates such as lizards and frogs.

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These animals may have been molluscs or worm-like Sipuncula.

The Hyolitha are a class of extinct animals with a shell and operculum that may be molluscs.

Fossils have been found that resemble the opercula ("lids") used by snails to close the openings in their armor, and are attributed to hyoliths, small animals that had conical shells and may have been molluscs or worm-like Sipuncula.

Excluded from all estimated dietary content and estimated dietary energy content calculations were molluscs, bryozoa, black bear hair, feathers, trees/shrubs, bryophyta, gravel, and garbage, as these were judged to contribute negligible energy to black bears.

However, it is not clear if this novel group is mollusc specific or also present in other lophotrochozoans.

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