Lecture 17 Flashcards
Bilateria 4 characteristics
- bilateral symmetry
- varying degrees of cephalization
- triploblastic embryos
- protostome or deuterostome development
cephalization
differentiation of head region, including anterior
concentration of neural ganglia (brain), frequently reduced in sedentary animals
triploblastic
endo, ecto, and mesoderm
Phylum Acoela (400)
marine worms, like flatworms are acoelomate, flat, minimal cephalization, ventral mouth, no anus, but no brain nor gut cavity, endocellular digestion instead, some molecular data place at base of bilateria
worm
general term for an animal with a body that lacks shells or elaborate appendages and is usually longer than wide
Lophotrochozoa
protostomes, lophophore or trochophore larva
5 main Lophotrochozoa phyla
- Platylhelminthes
- Brachiopoda (300)
- Ectoprocta (5000)
- Annelida (16 500)
- Mollusca (93 000)
Phylum Platylhelminthes
flatworms, acoelomate, some have trochophore-like larvae, no circulatory or gas-exchange system, flatness allows most cells to be in contact with water/air, do not have complete digestive system
Platylhelminthes 2 Classes
- Turbellaria
2. Cestoidea
Class Turbellaria
free-living flatworms, most marine some freshwater few moist soil, predatory on other small metazoans, some eat bacteria and protists or decaying organic matter, or have symbiotic green algae
Turbellaria morphology
- epidermis covered by cilia
- pair of ventral nerve cords
- pair of ganglia near front of body
- no anal opening
Turbellaria reproduction
most are hermaphroditic, transfer sperm by piercing the
body of a partner with sharp copulatory organ, often both desire to transfer sperm, leads to “penis-fencing”, one species able to copulate with its own head
Class Cestoidea
tapeworms, endoparasitic in digestive systems of other animals
Cestoidea morphology
- lack digestive system (absorb nutrients through thin body wall)
- scolex (front end of body) modified for holding on to host’s gut with suckers/hooks
- after scolex has proglottids
proglottids
long chains of units devoted to reproduction in cestoids, new at base of scolex, old toward posterior of body
Cestoidea reproduction
- mature proglottids filled with eggs are
defecated by host - eggs eaten by intermediate host, develop into larvae that encyst in tissues of intermediate host
- final host eats intermediate host, larvae develop into adult tapeworm in gut of final host
final/definitive host
the host in which the parasite engages in sexual reproduction
Echinococcus spp.
dog tapeworms, have herbivorous mammals as
intermediate hosts, but occasionally eggs get into
humans
Echinococcus in humans
- eggs hatch in small intestine
- larvae migrate through circulatory system to liver (sometimes end up in other soft tissues)
- larvae undergo asexual reproduction, split into thousands of new larvae, all located in a large hydatid cyst
- can go undetected for up to 20 years, but when cyst becomes big it causes problems
Phylum Brachiopoda
lamp-shells, all marine deep-water, much more diverse in the past
Brachiopoda morphology
- lophophore-bearing
- complete gut with anal opening
- look like bivalve molluscs
- some attached to substrate by rubbery stalk
Brachiopoda feeding
suspension feed using paired lophophores
Phylum Ectoprocta (aka Bryozoa)
most marine few freshwater, gut is U-shaped with anal opening outside of the lophophore, colonial