How Are Clams Triploblastic?

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Mollusks Are Triploblastic (Having Three Primary Germ Layers Germ Layers the Ectoderm Is One of the Three Primary Germ Layers Formed in Early Embryonic...

How Are Clams Triploblastic?

Mollusks are triploblastic (having three primary germ layers

germ layers
The ectoderm is one of the three primary germ layers formed in early embryonic development. It is the outermost layer, and is superficial to the mesoderm (the middle layer) and endoderm (the innermost layer). ... The word ectoderm comes from the Greek ektos meaning "outside", and derma meaning "skin".
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: the ectoderm, mesoderm, and endoderm) protostomes. The principal body cavity is a blood-filled hemocoel. They have a true coelom
coelom
The coelom (or celom) is the main body cavity in most animals and is positioned inside the body to surround and contain the digestive tract and other organs. In some animals, it is lined with mesothelium. In other animals, such as molluscs, it remains undifferentiated.
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(eucoelom; fluid filled body cavity within the mesoderm).

Are all mollusks triploblastic?

Both molluscs and annelids probably evolved from free-living flatworms. Both flatworms and molluscs are triploblastic, bilaterally symmetric, and cephalized. ... The coelom in molluscs, however, is strangely reduced to a small space around the heart, sometimes called a hemocoel.

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(3:56) Not super-handsome, but these guys are a big deal, because they're the oldest existing phylum that is triploblastic, or has three germ layers. So in addition to an endoderm and ectoderm, their embryos form a mesoderm.

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