Molluscs are a large phylum containing over 50,000 species. They share characteristics like a mantle that secretes a calcium shell, a mantle cavity, and a muscular foot. Their bodies are unsegmented, bilaterally symmetrical, and they have a true coelom. There are six main classes of molluscs: Monoplacophora, Aplacophora, Polyplacophora, Gastropoda, Scaphopoda, and Cephalopoda. They live in a variety of habitats from marine to freshwater to land, and occupy niches from sedentary bottom dwellers to free-swimming cephalopods.