lophotochozoa Flashcards
veliger
larval stage unique to mollusks
Mantle
the part of the mollusk body that secretes the shell; houses organs.
Lophophore
a crown of ciliated tentacles used for feeding
Trochophore
a free swimming larval stage that is surrounded by a ring of cilia (troch)
possessed several organs
undergo metamorphasis
Brachipod
a lophophorate snimal that resembles a bivalve but possessed a lophphore inside its shell
metamerism
the repeated body segments of an animal
scolex
the structure that allows tapeworms to attach to their hosts
corona
the locomotion/feeding structure of a rotifer
parapodia
paddle-like appendages that aid in locomotion of some annelids
Cephalization
the tendency for the brain and sensory organs to centralize toward an animal’s head
Lophotrochozoa
- Display protosome devlopment: blastopore becomes mouth of juvenile
- do not perform ecdysis to grow
- soft bodies organisms that grow gradually
- possesses a lophophore: specialized feedin apparatus, ciliated tentables surround a mouth
Platyhelminthes
flatworms;
bilaterally symmetrically not true body cavity;
less than 1mm thick; gases are exchanged by diffusion; incomplete gastrovascular cavity; mostly parasitic; hermaphorditic.
Class Tubellaria
free-living group;
marine and freshwater enviornments;
Auricles - special chemoreceptive structures on the sides of the head;
ocelli allow the worm to differentiate between areas of light and dark; Sensory input is processed by the cerebral ganglia;
pharynx located midway down the body.
Class Trematoda
parasitic flukes.
Head is crowned by a sucker with hooks or barbs for host attachment.
Complex life cycle; produce large quantities of eggs to ensure that at least a few are successful.
Class Cestoda
parasitic tapeworms.
live intestines of hosts. lack a digestive tract . head regions known as scolex that had suckers and barbs or hooks for attachment to the lining of the intestine. proglottids;
ingested by herbivores;
cysts killed by high temps;