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Scaphopoda
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Scaphopoda [skə′fäp·əd·ə]
(invertebrate zoology)
A class of the phylum Mollusca in which the soft body fits the external, curved and tapering, nonchambered, aragonitic shell which is open at both ends.


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The scaphopods (or "tusk shells") burrow into sea-floor sediment using their muscular "foot" and live head-down.
 
 
 
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