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porifera & cnidarians Flashcards

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Leucosolenia

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phylum: porifera
class: calcarea
-aconoid body type sponge
-white and tubular
-asexual
-forms a colony

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Clathrina

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phylum: porifera
class: calcarea
-asconoid type sponge
-yellow and latticed
-single osculum

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Sycon

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phylum: porifera
class: calcarea
-syconoid type sponge

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Euplectella

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phylum: porifera
class: hexactinellida
-has 6 ray of spicules
-glass sponge
-japanese wedding figfts due to cmmernsal monogamous shrimp

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Hyalonema

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phylum: porifera
class: hexactinellida
-deep sea
-glass rope sponge to elevate itself off the ground for protection

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Spongilla

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phylum: Porifera
class: demospongiae
-freshwater sponge, unique adaptations for freshwater
-photosynthetic
-spicules made up of silica
-leuconoid

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Chondrolcladia

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phylum: porifera
class: demospongiae
-harp sponge
-deep sea predators
-hook shaped spicules and glue
-secretes a chemical that mimics the mating pheromones of other shrimps

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Tedania

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phylum: porifera
class: demospongiae
-fire sponge because it causes a burning sensation when you touch it
-spicules made up of silica

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Spongia

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phylum: porifera
class: demospongiae
-commercial sponge
-spingin & collagen can absorb water
-spicules made up of silica which can be used to scraped the skin

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Oscarcella

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phylum: porifera
class: homeoscleromorpha
-leuconoid
-slime sponge
-encrusting
-first organism to have its genome sequenced

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Corticium

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phylum:porifera
class: homoscleromorpha
-secrete proteins toxic to mycobacterium tuberculosis

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Hydra

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phylum: cnidaria
class: Hydrozoa
-regenerative properties
-freshwater
-no Medusa, only a polyp
-photosynthetic

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Obelia

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phylum: cnidaria
class: Hydrozoa
-symbiotic with ephelota
-hydroid
-typical hydrozoan
-forms polymorphic organisms
-representative hydrozoan

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Turritopsis Dohrnii

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phylum: cnidaria
class: Hydrozoa
-immortal jelly
-can reverse their age within their life cycle due to undifferentiated cells

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Physalia

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phylum: cnidaria
class: Hydrozoa
subclass: siphonophora
-portuguese man of war
-Gulf of Mexico
-polymorphic colonies
-painful sting
-cell differentiation

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Aeuorea Victoria

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phylum: cnidaria
class: Hydrozoa
-crystal jelly
-deep sea
-bioluminescent through GFP

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Aurelia

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phylum: cnidaria
class: Scyphozoa
-don’t make polymorphic colonies
-moon jelly
-representative scyphozoan

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Cassiopeia

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phylum: cnidaria
class: Scyphozoa
-upside down jelly
-symbitotic with zoothanthella
-not a predator

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Cyanea

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phylum: cnidaria
class: schypozoa
-largest British jellyfish
-lion’s mane
-severe sting

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Lucernaria

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phylum: cnidaria
class: staurozoa
-stalked jelly
-octomere symmetry
-no medusa, just poly
-live near deep sea vents

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Chironex Flickeri

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phylum: cnidaria
class: cubozoa
Australian box jelly
potent neurotoxin can kill in two minutes
sea wasps
has three different eyes

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Chiropsalmus

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phylum: cnidaria
class: cubozoa
four handed jelly
severe sting
Gulf of Mexico

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Anthopleura

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phylum: cnidaria
class: anthozoa
subclass: zooantharia
-sea anemone

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Acropora

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phylum: cnidaria
class: anthozoa
subclass: zoonatheria
-elkhorn coral
-calcium based skeleton
-major contributor to coral reefs
-representative hard coral

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Cerianthus

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phylum: cnidaria
class: anthozoa
subclass: ceriantipatheria
-tube anemone
-parchment like tube
-no pedal discs

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Antipathies

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phylum: cnidaria
class: anthozoa
subclass: ceriantipatheria
-black coral
-not photosynthetic
-deep sea

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Gorgonia

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phylum: cnidaria
class: anthozoa
subclass: octocorallia
-sea fan
-soft coral
-secretes gorgonin

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Ptilosarcus

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phylum: cnidaria
class:anthozoa
-sea pen
-colonial creatures
-bioluminesces to escape predators to burrow in sand

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