Phylum Echinodermata Flashcards
Symmetry type
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Radial
Classes and example
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1.asterodied
Ex: starfish
2.ophiurodied
Ex.brittle star
3.echinoidieo
Ex. Urchins
4.holothuroidied
Ex. Sea cucumbers
5.crinoida
Ex.sea lilies
Reproduction
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- broadcast spawners
- make and female
- regeneration allows for multiple as long as part of central dick remains
ASEXUAL
Movement
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- impulse contacts forcing air out through tube foot
- sea stars water enters the sevic plate into ring canal into long radial canals along Bottom of each Ray
Respiration
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Use water vascular system as week as skin gills to transfer oxygen and carbon dioxide
Nervous system
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Have no Brian
A nerve ring in the centre and a radial nerve in each arm
Have chemoreceptors for smell and eye spots for sense of light
Excretion
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Water vascular system diffuses waste our anus
Anus defecated indigestion food
Skin gills release Carson dioxide
Digestion
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Echinoderms have a mouth, stomach, intestines, and digestive glands
2 openings and one way system
Eat by expelling stomach out of mouth on top of prey once done eating suck stomach back up
Circulation
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Don’t have circulatory system
Water vascular digestive glands provide nutrients
Meaning of Echinodermata
Spiny skin
Support structure
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Endoskeleton made from calcium carbonate