Mollusca

Mollusca
Mollusca 1797, from Mod.L. mollusca, chosen by Linnaeus as the name of an invertebrate order (1758), from neuter plural of L. molluscus "thin-shelled," from mollis "soft" (see MELT (Cf. melt) (v.)). Linnæus applied the word to a heterogeneous group of invertebrates, not originally including mollusks with shells; the modern scientific use is after a classification proposed 1790s by French naturalist Georges Léopole Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert, Baron Cuvier (1769-1832).

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