Mantle (molluscs)
The coat of the land snail Indrella ampulla is cream-colored and partially protrudes from the shell . The head and foot of the snail are red.
As a jacket or pallium which is posterior body surface at mollusks (Mollusca), respectively. It forms the mantle cavity , which can take on a number of functions in the various classes of molluscs, for example as a respiratory cavity in which breathing via gills in aquatic molluscs or a lung field in the form of elevations in the mantle cavity wall ("lung cavity") in air breathers (e B. in pulmonary snails ).
In the shell molluscs (Conchifera), that is, shell snails , mussels , scabbards and shell -bearing cephalopods (today still the pearl boats ), the coat separates the uniform three-layered calcareous shell.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Keyword mantle cave in: Herder-Lexikon der Biologie. Spectrum Akademischer Verlag GmbH, Heidelberg 2003. ISBN 3-8274-0354-5 .