Invertebrates 2 Flashcards
Flatworms
organ level
Cephalization
Bilateral Symmetry
Ladder-Type nervous system
Turbellarians
free-living flatworms
planaria
freshwater Head is bluntly arrow shaped Auricles = sense organs Two light-sensitive eye spots Three kinds of muscle layers: Outer circular layer Inner longitudinal layer Diagonal layer
Excretory organ functions in osmotic regulation and water excretion
Asexual/Hermaphroditic
parasitic flatworms types
flukes/trematodes
tapeworms/cestodes
trematodes
Reproductive system well developed
Usually hermaphroditic
Complex life cycle
cestodes
ant. region w/ modifications for attachment to intestinal host
body has long series of proglottids
self fertilize
complex life cycle
each segment of cestode contains
full set of male and female sex organs
Rotifers
named for crown of cilia resembling a rotating wheel (Corona) locomotion and digestion mastax=pharynx trophi=jaws freshwater pseudocoleomate
nematodes
ubiquitous, abundant, habitat specific, host specific
“If all the matter of the universe except the nematodes were swept away, out world would still be dimly recognizable, and if, as disembodied spirits, we could investigate it, we should find its mountains, hills, vales, rivers, lakes and oceans represented by a thin film of nematodes.”
N.A. Cobb. basically, they are super abundant
Roundworms
Non-segmanted, generally colorless worms
larger ones are pseudocoleomate
parasitic roundworms infect humans, animals, plants
molt cuticle
eutely
only longitudinal muscles