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Conchologists of America List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Sat, 2 Jun 2001 22:08:03 -0400
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Re: The Question Man Asks---
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Paul Monfils <[log in to unmask]>
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Hi Q!

Nope.  Only two classes of mollusks have made it to fresh water -
bivalves and gastropods; and only one class has made it to land -
gastropods.  All the others (chitons, tusks, cephalopods,
monoplacophorans, gastroverms) are strictly marine.  Bivalves are poorly
equipped for terrestrial life from just about every viewpoint -
locomotion, feeding, respiration, excretion, reproduction, etc.

Paul M.

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