Lab 6 - Echinodermata, Protochordates, Fishes Flashcards
Deuterostome characteristics
Radial cleavage
Anus develops from blastopore
Enterocoelous eucelomate
What type of symmetry do Echinoderms have
Pentaradial symmetry (groups or multiples of fives)
Water Vascular System Function
Gas exchange, locomotion, feeding
Structural support of Echinoderms (what makes it up? what are the subunits called?)
Calcareous endoskeleton made of ossicles
Parts of the water vascular system
Ring canal, radial canals, tube feet, ampulla, madreporite
Where does water enter within echinoderms
Madreporite
Ampulla
pumps water thru tube feet, causes them to extend or retract
Five major taxa of Echinodermata
Crinoidea (sea lilies) - rare
Asteroidea - Sea stars
Ophiuroidea - Brittle Stars
Holothuroidea - Sea Cucumbers
Echinoidea - Sea Urchins and Sand Dollars
Asteroidea
sea stars, feed on clams and bivalves, use tube feet to open up bivalve then everts stomach to digest, slow movement
Ophiuroidea
Lack tube feet, no digestive glands in arms, arms more distinctly offset, rapid movement
Echinoidea
Use movable spines for protection and locomotion (irregular only), possess aristotle’s lantern
Holothuroidea
Tentacles which are modified tube feet, ossicles largely reduced, defense mechanism everts internal organs thru anus which are later regenerated
Protochordates
First marine life to have basic chordate characteristics. Two taxa
Two taxa of Protochordates
Urochordata and Cephalochordata
Basic Chordate Characteristics
Dorsal hollow nerve cord, notochord, pharyngeal pouches, post-anal tail, endostyle/thyroid gland
Urochordata
AKA Tunicates, TAIL has well developed notochord (tail-chordate), dorsal hollow nerve cord, pharnyx has slits in larva
Tunicate larva
Larva of urochordata, becomes less vertabrate-like as it matures by attaching to a solid structure and losing its tail/notochord/nerve cord
Cephalochordata
AKA Branchiostoma/amphioxus, small ish that lie partially in the sand, filter feed using pharyngeal gill slits. Notochord goes into the head (head-chordate). Retain all 5 chordate synapomorphies unlike urochordates