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Explain the salient features of phylum mollusca.

The following are the features of phylum mollusca:
(i) They are aquatic and terrestrial.
(ii) Unsegmented and soft bodied.
(iii) Foot is used for locomotion.
(iv) Respiration by a pair of gills.
(v) Mantle is often soft and secretes calcium carbonate shell.
(vi) True coelom is present.

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