Mantle (mollusc)

As mantle or pallium, the dorsal body surface in molluscs ( Mollusca ) is called. It forms the mantle cavity, which can take a number of functions in the various classes of molluscs, such as a respiratory cavity, in which respiration via gills in aquatic molluscs or a lung field in the form of surveys of the mantle cavity wall ( " lung cavity " ) in air breathers (z can take place. example in lung worm ).

In the shell molluscs ( Conchifera ), which are snails, clams, Kahnfüßer and housing bearing cephalopods ( today the nautilus ), the sheath separates the uniform three-layered calcareous shell.