Lab 8 Flashcards
Echinoderms
Marine animals with an endoskeleton consisting of calcareous plates and spines within their skin
what kind of symmetry do echinoderms have
Pentaradial Symmetry
Pentaradial Symmetry
With five arms radiating from a central disc
body plan is
Triploblastic coelomate
Digestive system of Echinoderms is
Tubular Digestive tracts
Unique structural feature of Echinoderms
Have a water vascular System
Water vascular system
Provides the forces for locomotion and Feeding
Explain the water vascular system
Network of canals that extend into each arm and connect to many tiny tube with suckers
Pisaster
Domain: Eukarya
Kingdom: Animilia
Subkingdom: Eumetazoa
Phylum: Echinodermata
echnioderms
marine animals with an endoskeleton
what kind of symmetry do echinoderms have
pentaradial symmertry
Pentaradial Symmetry
Five arms radiating from a central disc
What kind of bodyplan do echinoderms have
Triploblastic coelomate
What kind of digestive tract do echinoderms have
Tubular Digestive Tract
What kind of vascular system do echinoderms have
Water vascular system
Pisaster
Domain: Eukarya
Kingdom: Animilia
Subkingdom: Eumetazoa
Phylum: Echinodermata
What is water vascular system
Provides the forces necessary for locomotion and feeding
Habitat of Picaster
cold water species
Found in the northwest Pacific Ocean
What does the picaster feed on
mussels, chitons, snails and barnacles
How many arms does the star fish have
5
What are the 5 arms attached to
central disc
Mandreporite
Small light coloured spot on the top surface
It allows water to move in or out of the starfish to keep the pressure within the water vascular system the same as the external environment
Grooves
on the lower surface
What’s within the grooves
Tube feet
Tube feet
Site of Gas exchange and associated with muscles and nerve fibres which allows the starfish to move and manipulate food
Red eye spot
Sensitive to light
Branchiae
Allows for gas exchange
Pedicellariae
Tiny pincers located on the flexible stalks, which clean and protect the surface of starfish
Two kinds of stomachs of Picaster
Pyloric Stomach
Cardiac stomach
where is pyloric stomach located
On top of the cardiac stomach
how does picaster eat
Once the starfish used its powerful tube feet to force open the shells of the prey, the cardiac stomach is everted out of the body to engulf the soft tissues of the prey
Two functions of pyloric stomach
- secrete enzymes into pyloric stomach where digestion occurs
- Serve as a storage site for digested food material