Slides 26 Flashcards
porifera distinguishers
sac perforated with pores; filter feeder; water is drawn into the spongocoel and flows out through the osculum;
porifera lacks tissues
two layers of cells separated by gelatinous region called mesohyl; choanocytes: flagellates collar cells, food particles by phagocytosis;
amoebocytes: cells within the mesohyl that igest food, transport nutrients, make skeletal fibers
cnidaria distinguishers
radially symmetrical, diploblastic animals, gastrovascular cavity; corals, jellies, hydras; basic body plan is sac with central digestive compartment; single opening functions as both mouth and anus
cnidaria body plan
sessile polyp: adhere to the substrate by the aboral end of the body, medusa: free-swimming form that has a bell-shaped body with the mouth on the underside
cnidarians hunt
predators use tentacles, armed with cnidocyetes (unique cells used in defense and prey capture), nematocysts (specialized organelles within cnidocytes that eject a stinging thread
medusozoans
both body plans; life cycle is dominated by diploid stage; alternates between polyp and medusa body forms; can reproduce asexually or sexually through production of medusae
lophotrochozoa clade
first to be biletarian and have triploblastic development; some have lophophore for feeding, others have trochophore larval stage, some have neither
lophotrochozoa diversity
18 phyla: flatworms, rotifers, acanthocephalans, ectoprocts, brachiopods, molluscs, annelids
flatworms
marine, freshwater, damp, terrestrial habitats; many parasitic; dorsoventrally flattened acoelomates, gastrovascular cavity branches throughout body
rotifera
tiny, inhabit freshwater, marine, and damp soil habitats; truly multicellular and have specialized organ systems; cilia draw water and food particles into mouth and food is ground up in trophi
ectoprocts
lophophore (crown of ciliated tentacles around mouth), U-shaped alimentary canal, absence of distinct head, coelom; sessile colonial animals, some colonies encased in hard exoskeleton
brachiopods
resemble clams and hinge-shelled molluscs, two halves of shell are dorsal and ventral, are marine and attack to seafloor by stalk
mollusca
snails, slugs, oysters, clams, octopuses, squids; soft bodies surrounded by protective calcium carbonate shell
mollusca body plan
3 parts; muscular foot for movement, visceral mass containing most internal organs, mantle tissue fold draping over the visceral mass that secretes the shell
annelids
segmented worms, live in marine, freshwater, and damp soil habitats, coelom and range 1mm-3mm length, have segmented body plan ONLY