Lab 9: Phylum Echinodermata Flashcards
Are Echinodermata protostomes or deuterostomes
Deuterostomes
Do echinoderms belong to the sea, land, and freshwater?
No; there are no freshwater or terrestrial deuterostomes. They only belong to the sea
What are Crinoidea? Which direction does their mouth face? What are its appendages?
Sea lillies and feather stars; mouth faces upwards; long branched arms that bear tube feet
What are Holothuroidea?
Sea cucumbers
What are Echinoidea? What are its appendages?
Sea urchins and sand dollars; body is globular or disk-shaped; skeletal plates fused into a rigid skeleton called a test
What is a “test”?
In Echinoidea, the rigid skeleton that skeletal plates are fused into
What are Ophiuroidea?
Brittle stars and basket stars
What are Asteroidea? What are its appendages?
Sea stars; body star-shaped with 5 or more arms; thick arms not distinct from central body disk; tube feet lie in open grooves
The larvae of echinoderms still retain what kind of symmetry?
Bilateral
What are the four traits believed to make echinoderms successful that cnidarian do not have?
-Radial symmetry
-Triploblasty
-A coelom
-Endoskeleton
What is pentaradial symmetry?
radial symmetry found in echinoderms; involves five parts arranged concentrically around a central axis
Describe the Water Vascular System (WVS)?
system of fluid-filled canals unique to echinoderms; derived from the coelom; plays role in movement, gas exchange, circulation, and feeding
What are the Ampulla and Podium?
The tube foot
What are ossicles?
Calcium carbonate plates the endoskeleton of echinoderms is composed of
What is structural support in echinoderms provided by?
An endoskeleton