Species Profile
Neopilina galathea
Living fossil mollusc
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumMollusca
ClassMonoplacophora
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Neopilina lives in deep sea.
It is slow-moving and detritivorous.
Important evolutionary form.
Size & Structure
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Single cap-like shell
02
Serial repetition of organs
03
Flattened body
04
Pale colour
Neopilina galathea — 3D Model
General Features
- Coelom
- Eucoelomate (well developed)
- Body plan
- Tube within a tube body plan (Protostomous)
- Germ layer
- Triploblastic
- Metamerism
- Present (true segmentation)
- Body symmetry
- Bilateral symmetry
- Fertilization
- External
- Digestion type
- Complete, extracellular
- Nervous system
- Ladder-like
- Excretory organ
- Metanephridia (repeated)
- Body temperature
- Poikilothermic, stenohaline
- Circulatory type
- Open circulation, single
- Development type
- Indirect
- Respiratory type
- Ctenidial respiration
- Mode of excretion
- Ammonotelism
- Circulation system
- Open
- Skeleton structure
- Exoskeleton (single shell)
- Level of Organisation
- Organ-system level
- Regulation of Osmosis
- Osmoconformer
Ecology
Deep-sea detritivore
Nutrient recycling
Evolutionary significance
Economic Importance
Evolutionary research
Comparative anatomy
Zoological importance