Exam 2 Flashcards
Phylum molcusca
Extremely diverse
Marine,freshwater, terrestrial
Most small
Octopi, squids, clams, sea snails
Why are molluscs used by humans
Food Pearls Bioindicators Pests Biotechnological/ medical importance
What makes a mollusc a mollusc
Visceral mass
Head-foot
About head-foot
Feeding
Sense-organs
The radula
The radula
Chitinous ribbon of teeth
Not in any bivalve
Odontophore cartilage holds teeth
The foot (of head foot)
Locomotion, attachment
Ventral
What is the visceral mass
Internal organs
Mantle and mantle cavity
Internal organs of molluscs
Digestive, excretory, reproductive, respiratory
Mantle and mantle cavity
Muscles have chemoreceptors
Makes the shell
Muscle cavity causes excretion
What is the mantle
The skin
What is the mantle cavity
Open to world, excretion, respiration, and reproduction
Three layers of mantle and shell
- Periostracum (outer layer)
- Prismatic layer (calcium carbonate stack)
- Nacre (pearl layer)
Pearls are made how
Many layers that form to protect molluscs from debris that has entered their shell
Basic internal characteristics of Molluscs
Bilateral symmetric coelomates Mantle/cavity for respiration Most have circulatory system Complex digestive system Varied nervous system
Reproductive systems of molluscs
Monoecious and dioecious Never asexual Trochophore larvae in most Veliger Larvae common Some have direct development (no larvae)
Mollusc class caudofoveata & solengastres
Worm-like and shell-less
Calcareous scales/spicules
Marine detrital/microorganism -consumers-burrowers
Reduced head, no foot
Mollusc Class monoplacophora
One plate
Thought to extinct
Round shell, large foot
Serial repetition of body parts
Mollusc class polyplacophora
Many plates (8)
Mantle girdle around outside
Intertidal rocky arms
Serial repetition seen
Mollusc class scaphopoda
Tusk shells/tooth shells Sedentary Tubular shell Tentacle foot A lot of diffusion in mantle cavity
Mollusc class Gastropoda
Stomach foot
Snail periwinkles limpets sea slugs
Marine freshwater terrestrial
Coiled shell, domed shell, no shell
Main groups of Gastropods
Prosobranchia (marine snails)
Opisthobranchia
Pulmonata (land and freshwater snails)
Torsion
180 degree rotation of mantle/ mantle cavity
Coiling
Whirling of the shell
How does torsion and coiling work
Both happen in the embryonic shell
Coiling solves problems from torsion
They are 2 evolutionary events
Feeding and ecology of Gastropoda
All feed with some adaptation of radula
Scraping, drilling, piercing
Even more important photosynthetic endosymbiosis
Love darts and slug orgies
Simultaneous hermaphrodites
Eversible penises, simultaneous sperm transfers
Copulatory organs are close to head of slug
What is a love dart
A premature lover booster that is like a sperm dart
Bivalves
No head, no radula Laterally compressed shells Creates bolus Uses foot to burrow Some bivalves are not sedentary Some sessile
Where does the bivalves shell start growing
The umbo
What do bivalves have for feeding and respiration
Gills
Mollusc class cephalopoda
Exclusively marine Predator Squids octopuses Cuttlefish Nautiluses
Shells of nautilds
Large shell
Shells of cuttlefish
Internal shell
Squid
Proteinaceous pen shell
Shells of the octopus
No shell at all
Locomotion of cephalopods
Fins and arms for jet repulsion
Basic body of cephalopods
Most have one pair of gills
8 arms
Closed circulatory system
Incredible nervous system
Aspects of cephalopods nervous system
Huge vision centre in brain
Large, lenses eyes
Innovation of arms
Cephalopods camouflage and ink
- 4 cell types
- ink sack made form melanin and mucus (out of rectum)
Reproduction of cephalopods
Dioecious Mating rituals Copulation Direct development(no larvae) All but a couple species die after giving birth
Mollusc organization
Organ system
Mollusc symmetry
Bilateral
Mollusc body cavity
Eucoelomate
Mollusc development
Triploblasts
Protosomes lochotrophozoa
Mollusc segmentation
No
Platyzoa, phylum Rotifera (wheel bearers)
Most smaller then 1mm
2000 + species
Ciliated crowns : corona
Pumping pharynx : mastax
Rotifera body forms
Floating planktonic: globular
Swimmers/creepers: worm-like
Sessile: vase-like
Colonial
Platyzoa, phylum Acanthocephala (spine-head)
-Defining feature = retractable introverted spiny Proboscus
-all parasitic in vertebrate intestines
Intermediate host is crustaceans
-Absorb nutrients though epidermis
-also dioecious
True loohophorates
Lophophore
Lophophore def.
Crown of cilia covered tentacles
- part of coelom
- for feeding and respiration
- ectoprocta, branchopoda, phoronida
Platyzoa, phylum ectoprocta (anus outside, also called Bryozoa)
4000 species Most colonial (zooids) in Zoecium Fossil record since Ordovician Invasive and fouling Medical components -cancer fighting
Platyzoa, phylum nemertea (ribbon or proboscis worms)
1300 species
60m in length
Mostly carnivorous
Phylum Nemertea reproduction
Asexual and sexual
What is phylum nemertea known for
Proboscis in Rhychocoel cavity
Coelem
Mesoderm cavity
Rotifera and acanthocephala organization
Organ system
Rotifera and acanthocephala symmetry
Bilateral
Rotifera and acanthocephala body cavity
Pseudocoelomate
Rotifera and acanthocephala development
Triploblast, protosomes, lochotrophozoa
Rotifera and acanthocephala segmentation
No
Bryozoa (ectoproctal) organization
Organ system
Bryozoa (ectoproctal) symmetry
Bilateral
Bryozoa (ectoproctal) body cavity
Eucoelomate
Bryozoa (ectoproctal) development
Triploblasts, protosomes, lochotrophozoa
Bryozoa (ectoproctal) segmentation
No
Nemertea organization
Organ system