Cnidaria Flashcards

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Cnidaria

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Hydrozoa, Scyphozoa, Anthozoa
Diploblastic, (hydroids, anemones, jellyfish) Radial symmetric (oral to aboral) , Polyp(benthic) and Medusa (pelagic), Hydrostatic skeleton,
Mesoglea, Nematocysts

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Hydrozoa

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Has polyp and medusa stages
Alternating generations
Hypostome, Tentacles, basal disk, epithelio muscular cells, gastrodermis, cnidocytes, tentacles, velum, manubrium, radial canal, mesoglea, gastrozoid, gonozoid
No Anus

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Hydrozoa Medusa and Polyp stage

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Medusae- usually small velum present simple bell margin, small maubrium lacking nematocysts, simple budding
Polyp- mouth is a simple opening, simple gastrovascular cavity, nematocysts absent in gastrodermis

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Hydrozoa orders

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Anthomedusae (Hydra)
Leptomedusae (Obelia)
Siphonophora (physalia)
Limnomedusae (Gonionemus)
Milleporina (Millepora)
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Hypostome

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Feeding (mouth) (Hydra)

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Tentacles

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Feeding and catching food (Hydra)

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Basal disk

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keeps hydra benthic gliding along the bottom

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Epithelio- muscular cells

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muscular contraction and protection

Hydra

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Gastrodermis

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Hydra
Layer lining the GVC
Nutritive-Muscular Cells and Gland Cells

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Cnidocytes

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cells that contain the stinging organelle’s nematocysts

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Does hydra have an exoskeleton?

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No

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12
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Nematocyte

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subcellular organism

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13
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Tentacles

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Gonionemus

catching food

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Manubrium

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Gonionemus

tubular structure - contains mouth

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Velum

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Gonionemus
the lip in the center
used for swimming

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Radial canals

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water movement

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Mesoglea

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Hydra
found between the epidermis and gastrodermis
thickest in stalk (column)-strength
thinnest in tentacles- flexibility

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How many radial canals do Gonionemus have?

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4

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Gastrozooid

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Catching food and feeding

Obelia

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Obelia

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Hydrozoan
marine benthic and colonial
Has an exoskeleton

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Gonozooid

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gonads and reproduction

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Scyphozoa

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‘True Jellyfish’- Hermaphroditic
Medusa form dominant
Thick mesogleal layer
8 lobed larval medusa (ephyra)

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Gastric pouches

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digestion

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Radial Canals

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water vascular system

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Mesoglea

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found between 2 epithelial cell layers

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Rhopalia

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sensory structure

Aurelia - Scyphozoa

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Planular larvae

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First Larva stage

Free swimming

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Scyphistoma

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Sessile, larval (non-reproductive) stage of Aurelia

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Ephyra

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ephyra is a non-reproductive life stage of Aurelia that comes just before the sexually reproducing medusa life stage

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Strobilation

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Aurelia

Asexual reproduction - polyp form segmentation

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Anthozoa

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No medusa stage– Anemone

Pedal disc- sedentary