Marine Flashcards
What do corals give zooxanthellae
Safe environment
Waste products
What are the different types of coral
Branching
encrusting
Digitate
Soft coral
Dead coral
Massive
Free living
Plate
Taxonomy hierarchy
kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species
Phylum porifera diagnostic features
Asymmetrical
Totipotency
Exhibit plasticity
Examples of phylum porifera
Sponges
Phylum cnidaria diagnostic features
Radial or bilateral symmetry
Cnidocytes
Phylum cnidaria examples
Jellyfish, coral
Phylum Mollusca classes
Bivalvia
Cephalopod
Gastropoda
Phylum Mollusca diagnostic features
Bilateral symmetry
Presence of a radula
Some have shells
Phylum Mollusca examples
Snails
Mussels
Squid
Phylum Arthropoda diagnostic features
Posses exoskeleton
Jointed appendages
Body segments
Class crustacea diagnostic features
Biramous appendages
2 paired appendages
Examples of class crustacea
Crabs
Diagnostic features of Echinodermata
Radial or bilateral symmetry
Lacks body segmentations
Tube feet with suckers
Spiny skin
The classes in Echinodermata
Asteroidea and Holothuroidea
Class Asteroidea diagnostic features
Star shaped body
Pedicellular
Tube feet with suckers
Class Holothuroidea diagnostic features
Long and cylinder body
Tube feet with suckers
Examples of class Holothuroidea
Sea cucumber
Examples of class Asteriodea
Star fish
Phylum chordata diagnostic features
Notocord
Nerve system
Pharayngel slits
Post anal tail
The different classes of chordata invertebrae
Urochordata
Cephalocordata
Difference between Urochodata and cephalochordata
Urocordata has diagnostic features as a larve but Cephalochordata have them as adults
Difference between chordata vertebrae and invertebrae
Vertebrae- notocord is replaced by a vertebrae (Backbone) in adult hood
Gill slits turn into cartilage jaw
Classes in chordata vertebrae
Chondrocytes and ostiechythyes
