Kingdom: Animalia, Phylum: Mollusca

Operculum

Outer lip

Anterior canal

Anterior (front)

Posterior (rear)

Protoconch

Suture

Longitudinal ribs

Posterior canal

Inner lip

Spiral ribs

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Aperture

Foot Tentacle

Siphon

Shell

Foot Tentacle

Shell

Herbivore

Great whelk

Penion maximus

Tulip shell

Pleuroploca australasia

Reddish rock-whelk

Charonia lampas rubicunda

Periwinkle

Turbo undulatus

Cartrut shell

Dicathais orbita

Lined whelk

Cominella lineolata

Rib-top snail

Austrocochlea constricta

Class: Bivalvia

Clams, oysters, cockles, mussels, scallops

Posterior

(rear) auricle

Anterior (front)

auricle Beak

Anterior

(front)

Posterior

(rear)

Source: www.wikiwand.com/en/Scallop

Scallops sit with

their curved side

in the sand and

flat side on top.

Eyes

Queen scallop

Equichlamys bifrons

Commercial scallop

Pecten fumatus

Doughboy scallop

Chlamys asperrimus

Hairy ark-shell

Barbatia pistachia

Axe-head mussel

Limnoperna securis

Carnivore

Class: Gastropoda

Sea snails

Right

valve