Echinoderms Flashcards
To which class do sea urchins belong? Range?
Echinoidea (Ord-Rec)
To which class do sea cucumbers belong? Range?
Holothuroidea (Ord-Rec)
Top surface of sea urchin?
aboral or adapical
Bottom surface of sea urchin?
adoral
Main body of sea urchin?
test
Central part on aboral surface?
apical disc
Aboral hole that surround anus?
periproct
Surrounds mouth on adoral surface?
peristome
The 5 narrower segments radiating from the apical disc?
ambulacra (connect to ocular plates)
The 5 broader segments radiating from the apical disc?
interambulacra (connect to genital plates)
The edge of the test viewed from above?
ambitus
The exit from the water vascular system?
madreporite
Socket that articulates with a tubercle?
spine base
Inflatable sac at base of tube-foot?
ampulla
5 strong jaws, each with a single tooth?
Aristotle’s lantern
Sand dollars belong to this order?
Order Clypeasteroida
Heart urchins belong to this order?
Order Spatangoida
Globular sea urchins belong to this order?
Order Camarodonta
Sea stars belong to this Subphylum?
Asterozoa, Class Stelleroidea
Brittle/basket stars belong to this subclass?
Ophiuroidea
Short-lived subclass of sea stars?
Somasteroidea
Where do the pore pairs occur, and how many per plate?
Ambulacra plates, 3 pairs
Between ambulacra plates
Per radial suture
Looks like star fish wrapped around a rock.
2 examples
Edrioasteroidea
Stromatocystites
Isorophus
Asteroidea of Asteroza
Example
Sea Stars
STENASTER
Ophiuroidea
Brittle stars etc
Unchanged since Ordovician
Crinoid body
Theca
Crinoid branches made of
Pinnules
Earliest true crinoid
Cupulocrinus, Ord
Example is camerate crinoid
Scyphocrinites