Monthly Archives: October 2017
Phylum Mollusca: Bivalves; Hyoliths and the Origin of Mollusks (October 31 & November 2)
The Wikipedia pages on bivalves and oysters are good, and there is a Wooster touch on each. Here is a nice webpage with some simple anatomical diagrams of bivalves. (A useful page for our dissections in lab this week.) Don’t … Continue reading
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Phylum Mollusca: Cephalopods (continued); Scaphopods and Rostroconchs (October 26)
Please see last week’s web discussion of the magnificent cephalopods. Apparently the minor molluscan groups the scaphopods and rostroconchs haven’t caught on enough in the public consciousness to produce many webpages, so Wikipedia will do fine. Ron Shimek has a … Continue reading
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Phylum Mollusca: Our Friends the Gastropods and Cephalopods (October 17 & 19)
Creatures with brains (more or less) are upon us! The polyplacophorans and monoplacophorans are usually covered early in a mollusk series because they have the least derived characters. Not much online about them for us. Gastropods, though, have their web … Continue reading
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