Feeding with the aid of a toothed- organ called a radula, name this largest class of mollusks that includes the snails and slugs.
The extinct Maclurites of this class are a characteristic fossil of the Ordovician Period, and members of its genus Murex were long the source of the royal dye Tyrian purple. Some species in this class serve as intermediate hosts to the schistosomiasis (shis-tuh-soh-MAI-uh-sis) flukes that can infest rice paddies and all show unexpectedly asymmetric bodies due to torsion in the developing embryo. The most venomous creature in the ocean is the cone species from this class and members of its prosobranch subgroup can retract their bodies inside their mantle-secreted shells. Feeding with the aid of a toothed- organ called a radula, name this largest class of mollusks that includes the snails and slugs.
The extinct Maclurites of this class are a characteristic fossil of the Ordovician Period, and members of its genus Murex were long the source of the royal dye Tyrian purple.
Gastropoda