Lab 5 - Invert Necessities Flashcards
Annelida
Large phylum(17000species) composed of segmented worms. Some organs repeat in segments
Earthworms, leeches, polychaee worms
Coelomates.
Anthropoda
1 million species.
All members have jointed appendages, an exoskeleton, and a segmented body.
Spiders, scorpions, horseshoe crabs, centipedes, millipedes, insects, crabs, crayfish, lobsters, shrimp, barnacles, copepodes.
Cnidaria
9000 aquatic species.
Stinging cells(cnidocytes).
Jellyfish, Hydra, Anemones, and corals.
Echinodermata
7000 marine species.
Starfish, brittle stars, sea urchins, sand dollars, sea cucumbers, crinoids.
“Spiny skins”
Mollusca
93000 species.
Large cavity for breathing and excretion and lined with a tissue(“mantle”). 2-3 nerve chords.
Snails, slugs, clams, mussels, squids, octopuses.
Nematoda
80000 species.
small narrow worms
1/5 parasitic.
Complete gut and longitudinal muscles
Pseudocoelomates.
Platyhelminthes
20000 species.
No circulatory or respiratory organs.
Important human and animal parasites.
Tapeworms, flukes.
Acoelomates.
Porifera
Sponges
Lack true tissues.
Unsure if monophyletic or not.
Rotifera
2000 species
tiny aquatic pseudocoelomates with cilia surrounds the mouth that appear to rotate while breathing.
Pseudoceolomates.
Body Cavity:
Coelomates
Fluid or Air filled body cavity completely lined body cavity.
located between the digestive system and the external body wall.
Surrounded 100% by the Mesoderm.
Body Cavity:
Pseudocoelomates
Fluid or Air filled body cavity but it is lined with both Mesoderm and endoderm tissue.
Body Cavity:
Acoelomates
Have no body cavity.
Kingdom Animalia
Metazoa.
monophyletic group.