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Animal kingdom

Grouping of all living beings with more or less complex organs, with which they move about and feed themselves; the body of knowledge about them.
mollusks

MOLLUSKS

Land and aquatic invertebrates (more than 100,000 species) with soft nonsegmented bodies; they usually secrete a calcareous shell.

snail

snail

Hermaphrodite herbivore land mollusk having a spiral shell; some species of snails are edible.

univalve shell

univalve shell

Land or aquatic mollusk having a foot and head, which retract into a spiral shell made of a single piece.

bivalve shell

bivalve shell

Aquatic mollusk without a defined head but having a foot, which retracts into a shell formed of two interarticulated parts.

octopus

octopus

Carnivorous marine mollusk with a head bearing eight powerful arms covered with suckers; the octopus can change color to camouflage itself. Certain species are edible.