How do mollusks obtain food?:confused:

What you find on the following site will help you.

Mollusk

A Mollusk has food brought in through a siphon system and then to its mouth. It then goes to a digestive gland and to its intestine. Wastes leave via the anus.

Another good site. I would check it out. It's very interesting.

Quizlet › Set: Mollusks vocab

Then see Radula, and click on the magnifying glass.

Radula is the scientific name for the toothed chitinous ribbon in the mouth of gastropods. They use it to graze and scrape diatoms and other microscopic algae off rock surfaces and other substrata.

The radula is common to all mollusks, except the bivalves, which feed by siphoning and filtering small particles from water.