Question

What is the respiratory organ of Mollusca?

Answer 1

Mollusca:

1. These animals have soft bodies, triploblastic, and bilaterally symmetrical.
2. These are coelomates that possess a Coelom or fluid-filled cavity between the body wall and digestive tract.
3. Respiratory Organ is important for any animal, the body absorbs oxygen from the air so that organs function properly inside the body and also expels waste gas.
4. Examples of Mollusca are snails, squid, scallops, oysters, octopuses, and chitons.
5. Ctenidium or true gill located in the water-filled mantle cavity is a respiratory organ in Mollusca.