Invertebrate Diversity Flashcards
How many layer do diploblastic tissues have and what are they?
2, endoderm and ectoderm
How many layer do triploblastic tissues have and what are they?
3, endoderm, mesoderm, ectoderm
What phylum are sponges in?
porifera
Porifera
-simple animals
-lack true tissues
-lack body symmetry
-usually marine
-amoebocytes
-hermaphrodites
How do animals in the porifera phylum get food?
by their flagellated choanocytes (filter food by passing water through pores in the body)
what are the pores that water is drawn through in the phylum porifera?
spongocoel and osculum
what does hermaphrodite mean?
the animal has both sex organs like porifera
What type of symmetry does the phylum cnidaria have?
radial
How many tissues layers does the phylum cnidaria have?
2, diploblastic
What are the “stinging cells” that cnidaria have called?
cnidocytes
What are the two body forms of cnidaria?
- polyp
- medusa
What is the common name for the phylum Platyhelminthes?
flatworms
Flatworms (Platyhelminthes)
-simplest bilateral animals
-no body cavity (acoelomates)
-marine, freshwater, damp habitats
-hermaphrodites
-gastrovascular cavity
How are tapeworms classified?
as parasitic flatworms
Nematoda
-have body cavity
-bilateral symmetry
-triploblastic
-free living and parastic
ex: roundworms