bio test 3 Flashcards
Oldest type of animal
* Barely multicellular
Three types of cells
Obtain food through filter feeding
Live mainly in ocean, but some freshwater
sponges
Entirely aquatic
* Radial symmetry
* Two growth forms:
– Polyp
– Medusa
Gastrovascular Cavity – incomplete digestive
system
* Nematocyts
Cnidarians
Flatworms
* Entirely aquatic or at least moist soil
* Bilateral symmetry
* Simple sense organs
Some are free-living, many are parasites
Platyhelminthes Characteristics
Segmented worms
* Aquatic or in moist soils
* Most free-living
– Detritovores
– Filter feeders
Some are parasites
* Earthworms, feather duster worms, leeches
Annelida
The second largest phylum
– 90,000 living spp
* Have colonized almost all habitats –
deepest ocean to forests to deserts
Well-developed organ systems
* Includes:
– Snails, Slugs, Clams, Mussels, Oysters,
Squids, Octopuses, and Nautiluses
Mollusca
a tonguelike organ with teeth in mollusks like snails
radula
Eat plankton and detritous
filter feeders
Bivalve
High levels of
intelligence
* Predators
* Found in ocean
only
Cephalopods
Overwhelming majority of phylum
Chordata
64,000 spp. described
– 4% of all described animal spp.
– Jawless fish, jawed vertebrates (including
sharks and rays), and bony fish
The vertebrates
not Jaw =
Agnathans
Jawless fish-like creatures
– Hagfishes
– lampreys
* Oldest group of vertebrates
Largely marine, some freshwater
* Scavengers or parasites
Agnathans
vertebrates with jaws
Gnathostomes
cartilage fish =
Chondrichthyes
Jawed fishes with cartilaginous skeleton
* Mainly marine, few freshwater
* Many are predatory, some filter feeders
3 main groups: chimeras, skates/rays,
sharks
Chondrichthyes
having rays and fin
Actinopterygii