Echinoderm Flashcards
Organism characterized by tube feet, a calcite body-covering, and a five-part symmetrical body.
Echinoderm
is the internal bone or cartilage structure of animals which have a vertebra and some animals without vertebra.
Endoskeleton
is a small wrench- or claw-shaped appendage with movable jaws
Pedicellariae
is an essential part of the circulation system in echinoderms
Madreporite
one of the numerous minute canals lined with choanocytes which radiate from the paragastric cavity in some sponges and end just below the surface of the sponge.
Radial canal
circular water tube that surrounds the esophagus of echinoderms.
Ring canal
the arms/limbs of an echinoderme
Arm / Ray
symmetry around a central axis, as in a starfish or a tulip flower.
Radial Symmetry
arrangement of an organism or part of an organism along a central axis, so that the organism or part can be divided into two equal halves
Bilateral Symmetry
is a hydraulic system used by echinoderms, such as sea stars and sea urchins, for locomotion, food and waste transportation, and respiration.
Water Vascular System
The abdominal part that extends from the mouth to the end of each ray or arm.
Ambulacral Groove
Any small bony or chitinous structure found in various skeletal parts of animals.
Ossicles
one of the tubular pouches opening into the alimentary canal in the pyloric region of most fishes
Pyloric Caecum
the distal aperture of the stomach, opening into the duodenum.
Pyloric Stomach
a midgut with outpocketings called digestive glands, or hepatopancreas; and a hindgut, or rectum
Cardiac Stomach