Phylum Platyhelminthes Flashcards
bilateria (triploblasts)
- Directional active movement with a purpose
- Last big split
- Triploblast → 3 embryonic tissue layers
- Monophyletic group
whats so great about being a bilaterian
- Having a mesoderm layer
- Ectoderm = skin and nerves
- Endoderm = organs
- Mesoderm = connective tissue, bone, muscles, blood vessels
aecolomate
o No coelom
o Fill blastospace with cells
o Organs float around, unorganized
o Flatworms, small animals
pseudocoelomate
o Fluid filled
o Nematodes
o False body cavity, no mesoderm lining of gut
eucolomate
o Mesoderm lines gut, organs and coneects them all together
o Segmentation
o Bigger and more complex organisms because things are separated
cephalization
o Leads to movement in 1 direction
o Development of anterior and posterior due to forward movement
o Sense environment with head first → development of sense organs
o Mouth in head
o Does not mean they have a head → just concentration of sensory organs at front
early sensory systems
- Statocyst in acoelomorpha
o Ball that helps to sense things - Ocelli in turbellaria (planaria)
o Little eye sports (no images, just light and dark)
acoelomorpha
- Marine
- Most are very small → need microscope
- Statocyst for orientation
- No anus, don’t really have a gut (syncytial digestive vacuole instead)
- Extracellular digestion → digest with juices outside and them absorb them
- No coelom
- Photosynthetic bacteria that are symbiotic so they get energy from that
xenacoelomorpha
- Purle socks
- New phylum discovered in feb 2016
platyzoa
- Platyhelmithes
- Flat small often no coelom
- Shwos different groups of phyletic ree
- Non parasitic and parasitic groups separated
- No last common ancestor for non-parasitic
- Poly and paraphyletic (how??)
characteristics of platyzoa
- Literally flat and worm
- 20000 species
- Acoelomate, bilateral, vermiform
- Most parasitic
- No anus (most)
- Flame cells (excretion and osmoregulation)
- Well developed reproduction (most hermaphrodites)
- Four classes (phylogeny under debate)
generic platyhelminthes
- Internal cavity = parenchyma
- Flat bc need to be small → no systems, small for surface area and to be able to do things at the cellular level
o Dorso-ventrally flattened
flame cells
- Mini kidney
- Filters fluid from inside body
- Removes metabolic waste
- Controls osmotic pressure
o Lots of microtubules and microvilli to retain ions
o Flame cells + tube cells = protonephridia
class tubellaria
- Small (<5mm) but can get up to 50cm
- 4500 species
- Mostly free living
o Marine, freshwater, terrestrial (damp)
o Swim and glide with muscles, cilia, mucus
skin and muscle of tubellaria
o Skin and mucle: • Cilia on epidermis • Epidermis contains rhabdites • Attach and detach system – dual-gland adhesive organs (ability to stick to things with adhesive and then unstick) • All found in rhabdites