Annelids Flashcards
What are annelids?
- marine
- have bristles
- predators
- also called bristle worms
- characterized by their segments
- not flatworms or roundworms
What are the individual segments of a worm called?
metamerites
What is a bobbit worm?
- named after lauren bobbit
- has jaws thats snap or snip efficiently
What are the synapomorphies of annelida?
- epidermal setae
- usually two on both metamersism
- terrestrial: anchoring
- marine: breathing, swimming, sensing
- metamarism
Describe the external morphology of annelids?
-jaws on their eversible pharynx
-segementsL prostomium, perstomium, pygidium, parapodia
what Is the prostoimium
-first segment
-primary sensory organs to sense environment
-tentacle and palps: respiration but primarily sensory
what is there peristomium
first true body segment
what is the pygidium?
- last segment of the body
- tail
- has the anus
- has two sensory called cirrus
How does an annelid grow
from the pyrigidium up
what is a parapodia?
- have setae embedded in them
- has two nodes
- both have setae embedded
- neuropodium
- ventural lobe
- aciculum
- primary way of sensing the environment
- notopodium
- dorsal lobe
- has repsiratory capillaries
Describe the internal morphology of annelids?
- each metarite is covered in pareital peritoneum
- this tissue membrane made out of mesoderm
- every segement is separated by a septum
- means its compartmentalized
- when circular muscle contract: thinner & longer, causing the longitudual muscle
- when the longitudual muscle contracts, circlular muscles have to relax
- wide and narrow
- allows to burrow and anchor in the substrate
What are errantians?
- scale worm
- bristles can modify to either become protection at the top, or on bottom modify to the become legs
- benthic or pelagic
- pelagic worms can inflate themselves for buoyancy
How are errata’s important economically?
food source
What are the errantians most dangerous time?
reproduction time
how do errantians reproduce?
- reproduce without leaving their burrows
- forms two different forms of their bodies
- normal body part: atoke
- epitoke forms during reproduction
- when mature enough, it will swim away
- environmental cues where the epitokes are released at the same time