Practicle #5 Flashcards
Ecdysozoa
Group of prostome animals.
Apomorphies: cuticular integument, open circulatory system, chitinous cuticle, jointed appendages for locomotion, chitinous exoskeleton, compound eyes
Cuticular Integuments
Protect against injury/physiological stress
Ecdysis: process by which animal sheds cuticle in order to grow
Nematoda
Roundworms
Culticle made of collagen, move by contracting longitudinal muscles
Tardigrada and Onychophora
Sister taxa
Open circulatory system, appendages for locomotion, chitinous cuticle
Tardigrada: semi-aquatic, extremophiles, cryptobiosis (able to go into dormancy for long time)
Onychophora: velvet worms, found in leafy habitats
Arthropoda
Likely 5 million species, compound eyes, jointed appendages, chitinous exoskeleton
Compound eyes
Made of thousands of repeating units called ommatidia, detect movement, large field of view
Jointed appendages
Allow to have a strong exoskeleton withough reducing movement.
Chitinous exoskeleton
Provides protection, significant variation
Crustacea
Marine invertabretes
Nauplius larvae, stalked compound eyes, 2 pairs of antennae, body has cephalon (head) and trunk (abdomen and thorax), breathe through gills
Hexapoda
Insects
Wings for flight, loss of abdominal appendages, 3-segmented thorax, labium mouth part, varied development strategies/growth phases
Hemimetabolous
Incomplete metamorphosis (3 stages)
egg –> nymph –> adult
ex. cockroaches, grasshoppers
Holometabolous
Complete metamorphosis (4 stages)
egg –> larvae –> pupa –> adult
ex. butterlies, wasps, beetles
Myriapoda
Centipedes and millipedes
Both: loss of compound eyes
Centipedes: venomous fanges
Millipedes: 2 body sections fused together
Chelicerata
Sea spiders, horseshoe crabs, arachnids
Body has 2 units (cephalothorax and abdomen), appendages used for walking are reduced in number, one set of appendages modifies into chelicera
Cephalothorax
In chelicerata
Head and thorax fused together, where the eyes and mouth and legs are
Abdomen
Where digestions, reproduction, respiration, and excretion occur
Chelicerae
First set of legs in chelicerata, above the mouth, used as fangs or for grasping
Arachnida
Spiders, scorpions, mites, ticks
- Spiders have one set of legs for silk production
- scorpions have stinger
4 pairs of walking appendages, book lungs or trachea for breathing