Polyplacophora Test

Question 1

What does Polyplacophora mean?

Answer 1

many plates

Question 2

what organisms are in the class Polyplacophora?

Answer 2

Chitons

Question 3

What is the body like? Does it have a head

Answer 3

Dorsoventrally flattened body with reduced head

Question 4

does it have a shell?

Answer 4

Shell of eight dorsal plates

Question 5

What is the foot and gills like?

Answer 5

foot broad and flat, gills multiple along the side of the body

Question 6

What environment do chitons live in?

Answer 6

shallow marine water

Question 7

What is the reproduction like?

Answer 7

dioecious, external fertilization leads to trochophore that turns into adult w/no veliger stages