Your lab group is presented with an unknown mollusk. Your task is to assign it to one of the major taxonomic classes. Which char

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Your lab group is presented with an unknown mollusk. Your task is to assign it to one of the major taxonomic classes. Which char

acteristic would allow you to say definitively that it belongs to the Class Cephalopoda?

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wlad13 [49] · Answer 1 · 2022-08-25T21:48:39+03:00

Answer: Head attached with the foot.

Explanation: Class Cephalopoda are highly advanced and organized group of marine animals that have a distinctive characteristics of their head been attached to their body and they possess tentacles that is to say their head is completely merged with their foot with their arms or tentacles surrounding the head.

Their body plan includes the head, two eyes, a mantle, a siphon and a minimum of eight arms. Some examples are octopus, squid and the cuttlefish