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MOLLUSCOIDA

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 675 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MOLLUSCOIDA  , a name

long employed to denote a division of the animal
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kingdom which contained Brachiopods (q.v.),
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Polyzoa (q.v.), and
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Tunicata (q.v.), the members of the three groups having been supposed to resemble the
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Mollusca . As it is now known that these groups have no relation to molluscs, and very little to one another, the name Molluscoida has been abandoned .

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