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(MOLLUSCA)All of the organs of the mantle cavity combined (ctenidia, osphradia, anus, renal and genital openings and glands).
Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. A.R. Maggenti and S.L. Gardne. 2005.
pallial complex
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