Species File Entries Flashcards
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Sea Lmprey
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- Phylum: Chordate
- Has nodocord
- Cylindrical bodies with no scales.
- Leathery skin is grey to dark brown with dark blotches and a lighter belly.
- Sharp teeth radiate around a rasp-like tongue at the centre of a large sucker mouth.
- The fish has large eyes, two dorsal fins, no pelvic or pectoral fins, a single, mid-dorsal nostril, and seven obvious gill openings on each side.
- uses sucker mouth, sharp teeth and rasping tongue to attach itself to the body of a fish and suck the fish’s blood. Fish that survive the attack are left with a large open wound that can become infected and often leads to death.
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Tube Worms
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- Visible parts of worm are feathery, colorful and have tentacles extending from the head
- Have a hard white tube created from lime
- reproduce through external fertilization
- Kingdom: Anamalia
- Phylum: Annelids
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Sea urchins
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-red sea urchin is the longest living creature on earth, with some living more than 200 years.
-omnivorous animals
-round shaped body and with long spines that come off it. The spines of the sea urchin are used for protection, to move about, and to trap food particles that are floating around in the water.
Phylum: Echinodermata
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Pisaster ochraceus
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(Purple sea star)
- usually have 5 arms
- Tube feet on the undersides of arms have suckers that allow them to remain attached to rock in high wave energy shores.
- keystone species in the rocky intertidal zone
- dying in great numbers from a mysterious wasting syndrome.
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Volvox
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- Fresh water Chlorophyte green algae
- Motile colony
- form spherical or oval hollow colonies that contain some 500 to 60,000 cells embedded in a gelatinous wall and that are often just visible with the naked eye.
- two flagella
- reproduce both asexually and sexually
- can be found in ponds, puddles, and bodies of still fresh water throughout the world.
- One of the most-common species, V. aureus, can form harmful algal blooms in warm waters with a high nitrogen content.
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Schistosoma
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- Parasitic Flatworms
- Phylum: Platyhelminthes
- their eggs are shed either in the feces or urine of an infected human. Eggs can survive up to a week in dry land. If the feces end up in water, larvae hatch and start finding certain species of freshwater snails. When they find a snail they penetrate its foot and transform into sporocysts (another larval form).
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Hagfish
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- Subphylum: Vertabrata
- Hagfish are scaleless with soft skin. Has been described as covering its body like a loosely fitting sock
- They have four hearts.
- They breathe through their nose and skin. - Gills
- Hagfish can’t see well, but have other sharp senses.They have several pairs of barbels, sensing tentacles, around their mouths and single nostril on the top of their heads.
- They’re jawless and boneless. Hagfish are the only living animals that have a skull but no spine. Skeleton is made up entirely of cartilage.
- . Hagfish are ancient. The only known fossil hagfish is 330 million years old, looks very similar to modern hagfish.
- Their feeding habits are disgusting but important, feed on dead and dying creatures on the sea floor.
- They are masters of sliming. Hagfish can produce copious amounts of sticky, fibrous slime from glands running along the sides of their bodies. This slime helps them repel or escape from predators. To wipe its slime away, the hagfish ties itself into a knot and work the knot from its head to its tail, scraping off the slime as it goes. If its nostril fills with slime, the hagfish will “sneeze” to clear out the clog.
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Red tailed Hawks
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- Excellent Vision
- Sharp Tallons
- Avian
- Females bigger than males
- Have complicated Arial Courtships- Diving down circling back up
- High Aspect ratio
- Thrilling Raspy scream call Hollywood uses
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Cladonia
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Kingdom: Fungi -Colonizing Species= Forms soil Indicator Species: Meaning air quality is good -Reproduces through spores -Grow on Trees
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Gooseneck Barnacles
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- Phylum: Anthropoda
- Filter Feeders
- Crustaceans
- 6 pairs of cirri
- Eat algae, copepods and shrimp
- Hermaphrodites- cross fertilization
- Habitat= intertidal and subtidal zones
- very profitable on fishery market
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Pseudotsuga menziesii
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(Douglas Fir)
- Strong wood
- Evergreen
- Grooved bark
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Polystichum munitum
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Western Sword fern
- Vascular
- Shade Tolerant (Climax species)
- Autotroph
- Diploid
- Indicator species: indicates that soils are high in nitrogen
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Porcine Parvovirus
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-Porcine parvovirus causes reproductive failure of swine characterized by embryonic and fetal infection and death, usually in the absence of outward maternal clinical signs
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E.Coli
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-Prokaryotes- unicellular Kingdom: Monera/Archea E. Coli shape is Bacilli (Cylinder) -Gram Negative -Heterotrophic -cellular division -some strains lethal and some helpful
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Alnus Rubra
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- (Red Alder)
- Converts Nitrogen from soil (with the nodules on it’s roots) into a form that can be used by the tree and later by other organisms once it decomposes.
