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Mollusca (mol-lus’ ka) (L. molluscus, soft) is one of the largest animal phyla after Arthropoda. There are over 90,000 living species and some 70,000 fossil species. Molluscs are coelomate lophotrochozoan protostomes, and as such they develop via spiral mosaic cleavage and make a coelom by schizocoely. The ancestral larval stage …

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