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Echinodermata
Starfish
Seastars
What makes a chordate?
Notochord
Dorsal nerve cord
Snail tail
Pharyngeal slits
Cephalochordates
Lancelets, small
Retain chordate synapomorphies through out life
Filter feeders
Urochordates- Tunicates
Sea squirts Adult sessile Colonial Filter feeds (Lose form as adult )
Craniates
Chordates with head
Myxini
Hagfishes
Bottom scavengers
Cartilaginous skeleton from notochord but no vertebrate
Jawless
Myxini
Hag fishes No jaws Unique defender Adults can change sex Slime defense
Vertebrates
Craniates with a backbone
Petromyzontida-lempreys
Oldest line of vertebrates
Jawless, parasitic
Cartilaginous vertebra surrounding notochord
Gnathostomes
Jaw mouths
Evolved from skeletal arches that supported pharyngeal slits
Chondrichthyans
Rays, skates, sharks, chimaeras
Finned fishes with cartilaginous skeletons
Chondrichthyans
Internal fertilization
Oviparous - egg hatch outside mothers body
Ovoviviparous- embryo develops in uterus; nourished by egg yolk
Viviparous- embryo develops in uterus; nourished in placenta from mothers blood
Skates and rays
Live on the ocean floor and feed on animals in the sediments
Chimeras live in deep sea cold waters
Osteichthyans
Most have bony Endoskeleton
Fishes
Ray-finned
Lobe-finned
Actinopterygii- ray finned fishes
- recognizable fish
- fins supported by long flexible rays