PBS The Shape of Life Disc 3: Survival Game (Molluscs) (2002)

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6:28Red Abalone uses foot for mobility, radula rasping tongue, mantle secretes shell 11:00 Blue Top Snail shell broken by predator (Imperial Beach, California) 12:30 Episcopal Miter has thick shell
12:50 Muricanthus has branched spines for body armor 13:10 Australian Trumpet Shell is largest living snail 13:50 Shell is interlaced with calcium and protein
16:30 Leafy Hornmouth has 3 ridges along shell 18:00 Red Abalone outruns Sunflower Starfish after flipping over 21:10 Basket Cockles runs away from Lewis's Moon Snail
22:25 Moon Snail burrows to surprise buried Cockle 24:00 Radula adapted for different foods 26:00 Chambered Nautilus swims by jet propulsion and can float by pulling seawater from siphoncle , leaving gas (The Wall, New Caledonia)
26:40 Opalescent Squid has shed shell for speed, has giant nerve fibers and 3 hearts Vampire Squid in deep ocean (Monterey Bay, California) 42:30 Wonderpus Octopus 44:50 Scorpionfish
45:10 Cockatoo Waspfish 45:40 Veined Octopus hides in split coconut (Bunaken Island, Indonesia) 47:40 Chromatophores and reflective cells enable rapid color change
48:15Poisonous Blue-ringed Octopus flashes warning coloration      
Calliostoma ligatum
11:00 Blue Top Snail
Mitra mitra
12:30 Episcopal Miter
Muricanthus
12:50 Muricanthus
Syrinx aruanus
13:10 Australian Trumpet Shell
shell
13:50 Shell is interlaced with calcium and protein
Ceratostoma foliatum
16:30 Leafy Hornmouth
Haliotis rufescens
18:00 Red Abalone
Pycnopodia helianthoides
18:00 Sunflower Starfish
Clinocardium nutallii
21:10 Basket Cockles
Polinices lewisii
21:10 Lewis's Moon Snail
Snail
22:25 Moon Snail burrows to surprise buried Cockle
radula
24:00 Radula
Nautilus macromphalus
26:00 Chambered Nautilus
siphoncle
26:00 siphoncle
Loligo opalescens
26:40 Opalescent Squid
Vampyroteuthis infernalis
26:40 Vampire Squid
Wonderpus photogenicus
42:30 Wonderpus Octopus
Scorpaenidae
44:50 Scorpionfish
Ablabys taenionotus
45:10 Cockatoo Waspfish
Octopus marginatus
45:40 Veined Octopus hides in split coconut
Chromatophores
47:40 Chromatophores and reflective cells
Hapalochlaena
48:15 Blue-ringed Octopus flashes warning coloration
   

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