Mollusca vs. Echinodermata — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Mollusca and Echinodermata
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Mollusca
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda. The members are known as molluscs or mollusks ().
Echinodermata
One of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom. By many writers it was formerly included in the Radiata.
Mollusca
Any of various skin diseases in which soft spherical tumors form on the face or the body.
Echinodermata
Radially symmetrical marine invertebrates including e.g. starfish and sea urchins and sea cucumbers
Mollusca
One of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom, a phylum including the classes Cephalopoda, Gastropoda, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda, and Pelecyopoda (syn. Bivalvia, formerly called Lamellibranchiata, or Conchifera). These animals have an unsegmented bilateral body, with most of the organs and parts paired, but not repeated longitudinally. Most of them develop a mantle, which incloses either a branchial or a pulmonary cavity. They are generally more or less covered and protected by a calcareous shell, which may be univalve, bivalve, or multivalve.
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Mollusca
Gastropods; bivalves; cephalopods; chitons
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