'mollusks' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is commonly used in scientific and academic contexts to refer to a large and diverse phylum of invertebrate animals that includes creatures such as snails, clams, octopuses, and squid. Example: The researchers collected various mollusks from the ocean floor to study their behavior and reproductive patterns.
B. Ciliary (e.g., sponges, bivalve mollusks).
Somewhat similar conditions prevail in many mollusks.
Life in the early Paleocene oceans took hundreds of thousands to millions of years to recover from the mass extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous Period, but by Late Paleocene times many groups of marine invertebrate animals had diversified considerably, including mollusks and plankton.
As one would suspect from their usually well-developed and massive dentition, with many having the teeth fused together in a parrotlike beak, most tetraodontiforms feed on hard-shelled crustaceans, mollusks, and echinoderms.
Habituation must therefore, it appears, be understood by reference to some change in the pathway between stimulus and response, and the work with Aplysia and other mollusks shows how this analysis may proceed at the physiological level.
This can be seen in the feeding behaviour of the oystercatchers, a group of birds that eat bivalve mollusks.
Finfoots live largely on mollusks, frogs, and small fish.
Oyster, any member of the families Ostreidae (true oysters) or Aviculidae (pearl oysters), bivalve mollusks found in temperate and warm coastal waters of all oceans.
Adaptable opportunists, gulls feed on insects, mollusks, and crustaceans on beaches; worms and grubs in plowed fields; fish along shores; and garbage from ships.
Traditionally, the majority of the Chumash population lived along the seashores and relied for food largely on fish, mollusks, and sea mammals and birds.
Chiton, any of numerous flattened, bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusks, worldwide in distribution but most abundant in warm regions.
