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... gastropods -the most numerous of all in species - live chiefly upon land , particularly in forests , but also in dry areas . Some gastropods are internal parasites of other animals . Mol- lusks , in short , are worldwide in distribution ...
... gastropods -the most numerous of all in species - live chiefly upon land , particularly in forests , but also in dry areas . Some gastropods are internal parasites of other animals . Mol- lusks , in short , are worldwide in distribution ...
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... gastropods becomes the muco - protein crystalline style . Its functions are to serve as a capstan winding in food and as a store of starch - digesting enzymes . The mantle cavity forms the commanding structural fea- ture of almost all ...
... gastropods becomes the muco - protein crystalline style . Its functions are to serve as a capstan winding in food and as a store of starch - digesting enzymes . The mantle cavity forms the commanding structural fea- ture of almost all ...
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... gastropods , scaphopods , and most bivalves and cephalopods have the sexes separate . Some prosobranch and all opisthobranch and pulmonate gastropods are hermaphroditic . In these gastropods and in cephalopods fertilization is internal ...
... gastropods , scaphopods , and most bivalves and cephalopods have the sexes separate . Some prosobranch and all opisthobranch and pulmonate gastropods are hermaphroditic . In these gastropods and in cephalopods fertilization is internal ...
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