Ch 33 An introduction to Invertebrates Flashcards
What are Rotifers and what is their Phyla?
Rotifers are from the phyla Rotifera.They are tiny animals that inhabit fresh water, the ocean and damp soil.
Rotifers are smaller than many protists but are truly multicellular and have specialized organ systems.
Rotifers have an alimentary canal what is it?
An alimentary canal is a digestive tube with seperate mouth and anus that lies within a fluid filled pseudocoelom.
How do Rotifers reproduce?
Rotifers reproduce by parthenogenesis, in which females produce offspring from fertilized eggs
Some species are unusual in that they lack males completely.
What two phylas are included in the Lophophorates? and what are their two distinguishing characteristics?
Lopho[horates have a lophophore, a crown of ciliated tentacles around their mouth.
They also have a true coelom
Lophophorates include the Ectoprocta and the Brachiopoda
What are some of the defining characteristics of Ectoprocts?
Ectoprocts (also called bryzoans) are sessile colonial animals that superficially resemble plants
They have a strong exoskeleton which encases the colony and some species are reef builders.
What are the defining characteristics of the Brachiopods?
Brachiopods are superficially resemble clams and other hinge-shelled molluscs, but the two halves of the shell are dorsal and ventral rather than lateral as in clams
Brachiopods are marine and attatch to the seafloor by a stalk.
What species do the phylum Mollusca include and where do they inhabit?
The ohylum mollusca include snails and slugs, oysters and clams, and octopuses and squids.
Most molluscs are marine, though some inhabit fresh water and some snails and slugs are terrestrial
What are the three main characteristics of molluscs?
All molluscs have
- muscular foot
- viseral mass
- mantle
Many molluscs also have a water-filled mantle cavity and feed using a rasplike radula
What is a lophophore?
The life cycle of many molluscs inclede the cilliated larval stage called a trophophore
What are the four major classes of molluscs?
- Polyplacophora (chitons)
- Gastropoda (snails, oysters, and other bivalves)
- Bivalvia (clams, oysters, and other bivalves)
- Cephalopoda (squids, octopuses, cuttlefish, and chambered nautiluses)
What are some of the characteristics of Chitons?
- Chitons are oval shaped marine animals encased in an armor of eight dorsal plates.
- They use their foot like a suction cup to grip rock.and their radula to scrape algae off the rock surface
What amount of species account for all living species of molluscsand gastropods?
three- quarters of all living species
What are nudibraches?
They are a part of the gastropods (naked lungs) they get their name cause their gils are just kind of hanging out in the open exposed and surrounds their anus
What are some of the distinguishing characteristics of gastropods?
- most gastropods are marine but many are freshwater and terrestrial species.
- The most distinctive characteristic of gastropods is torsion, which causes the animal’s anusand mantle to end up above its head (basically they poop on their own heads); tosion is different fromvthe coiling of a shell
- most have a single, spiraled shell
- slugs lack a shell or have a reduced shell
What are some of the characteristics of bivalves?
Bivalves are marine and include many species of clams, oysters, mussels, and scallops
- They have shell divided into two halves drawn together by adductor muscles
- some bivalves have eyes and sensory tentacles along the edge of their mantle
What special feature does the mantle cavity haveand what is it used to do?
The mantlecavity of a bivalve contains gills that are used for feeding as well as gas exchange.
When you eat scallops what are you eating?
The adductor muscle
What do scallops eat?
algae, some even eat red tide (a neurotoxin) but it doesnt hurt the organism but will kill us for eating them
What are cephalopods?
Cephalopods are carnivores with beak-like jaws surrounded by tentacles of their modified foot
-Most octopuses creep along theseafloor in search of prey
cephalopods have a closed circulatory system, well developed sense organs and a complex brain
All cephalopods have tentacles, how many do octopuses, squid and cuddlefish? what is different about octopus tentacles and squids?
Octopus:8
squid: 10
cuddlefish: 10
squids and cuddlefish haave 10 tentacles but they ccan use two of them to shoot out and capture things
Squids are pallagic, what does that mean?
They are out and about swimming everywhere
Octopus are pallagic and benthc. What is benthic?
bentic means that they like to hang out near the ocean floor.
What are nautilis? they migrate everyday what doesthis mean?
They are up on the surface feeding during the night and during the day they go really deep in the ocean
What is a special function of a nautilus?
They like to go into area of the ocean that have little to no oxygen and their shell has gas stored inside and they use it asa scuba tank and they modify their gas content to balance their buyancy so that they ae neutrally buoyant, and they are a living fossil (only living cephlopod with a shell)
What two methods do squids use to swim?
They use their siphon to fire out a jet of water which allows them to swim very quickly, they also have a fin they use to help them swim when they are swimming slow.
How do octopus and squid change color? and use crypsis to their advantage?
They have the ability to camophage they do it in two ways
- they are able to change colors using things called chromatophores and change color and patterns
- underneath their skin they have discs called chromatophores that are anchored and have different pigments,when the disc is open you see the color and when they close the disc its looks white
- They have muscle under their skin called capilae, which will puff up and match the 3-D shape of their surroundings.
What are ammonites?
They are shelled cephalopods which went extinct at the end of the cretaceous 65.5 million years ago
How do you swim if your a squid or an ammonite?
You have to suck in water and blow it out, so a squid has to use eight times as much energy to swim half as fast as a fish the same size would
What are annalids? and what two groups is this phylum divided into?
They are worms
annalids have bodies composed of a series of fused rings and are coelomates (have a true coelom)
-the phylum annalida is divided ino:
- Polychaeta (polychaetes)
- ogliochaeta (earthworms and their relatives, and leeches)
What are some of the characteristics of polychaetes?
Members of class polychaetes have paddle-like parapodia that work as gills and aid in locomotion
-most polychaetes are marine
Polychaetes (many mouths)
What are some characteristics of the Oligochaetes?
Oligochaetes are named for relatively sparse chaetae (mouth parts), bristles made of chitin
Earthworms lie under this catagory
What catagory do earthworms fall into and what are some of their characteristics?
Eathworms lie under Oligochaetes
Earthworms eat through soil, estracting nutrients as the soil moves through the alimentary canal
- earthworms are hermaphrodites but cross-fertilize (they do themselves)
- some reproduce asexually by fragmentation
What catagory do leeches lie in? what are some of their characteristics?
- They also fall under the catagory of oligochaetes
- most species of leeches live in fresh water; some are marine or terrestrial
- leeches include predatorsof invertebrates, and parasites that suck blood
- leeches secrete a chemical called hirudin to prevent blood coagulating
- heparin
How do we use leeches today in modern medicine?
Ex: if a finger is cut off and is sown back on, the flesh begins to rot so they use leeches to draw out the dead blood and try to increase blood flow to that appendage
What are some of the characteristics of the clade Ecdysozoans?
Ecdysozoans are the most species-rich animal group
Ecdysozoans are covered by a tough coat called a cuticle
-the cuticle is shed or molted through a process called ecdysis
the two largest phyla are nemtodes and arthropods
What are the two largest phylas of the clade Ecdysozoans?
Nematodes and arthropods
Why would ecdysozoan shed their cuticle?
in order to grow, as they grow they get too big for the shell and they shed it to grow another that will fit.
What clade do nematodes fall into? and what are some of their characteristics?
Nematodesor roundworms, are found in most aquatic habitats, in the soil, in moist tissues of plants and in body fluids and tissues of animals
- They have an alimentary canal, but lack a circulatory system
- reproduction in nematodes is usually sexual, by internal fertilization
What amount of species of animals are arthropods? and where are they found?
Two out of every known species of animals are arthropods
Members of the phylum arthropoda are found in nearly all habitats of the biosphere
What does the arthropod body plan consist of? What event do they date back to?
The arthropod body plan connsists of a segmented body, hard exoskeleton and jointed appendages
- this body plan dated to the cambrian explosion (535-525 million years ago)
- Early arthropods show little variation from segment to segment
What is Arthropod evolution characterized?
Arthropod evolution is characterized by a decrease in the number of segments and an increase in appendage specialization
-These changes may have been caused by changes in the hox gene (informationas to where parts go) sequences or regulation
The appendages of some living arthropods are modified for functions such as what?
walking, feeding, sensory reception, reproduction and defense
The body of an arthropod is completely covered by cuticle, what is an exoskeleton made of?
Layers of protein and the polysaccharide chitin
What is the purpose of claws in lobsters?
They are used for natural selection, females are looking for males with big claws and the males are fighting with eachother with those big claws