nemertea Flashcards
1
Q
Characteristics
A
Ribbon worms
- flat, unsegmented
2
Q
Local example and some details about it
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Cerebratulus lacteus
- milky ribbon worm
- lives in mud flats
- prey on tagelus sp by coming up from beneath them
- fragment very easily
3
Q
Ecology
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Marine and freshwater habitats, as well as terrestrial
4
Q
Tropic role
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Predatory carnivores
5
Q
Body plan
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Bilateral symmetry
Triploblastic
Have a coelomate
Gut
Coelum fluid
6
Q
polyplacophora (chitons)
A
marine, rocky substrates
8 shell plates
mantle = girdle
herbivores, feed on algal films
radula teeth capped w/ magnetite
