Taxonomy Sheet Flashcards

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Phylum Porifera (SPONGES)

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  • No true tissues
  • Different Cell types
    1. pinacocytes (pinacoderm - incipient tissue)
    2. archaeocytes - in mesohyl
    3. choanocytes
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Pinacocytes

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Phylum Porifera (SPONGES)
The outer layer of sponges formed of flattened cells and form the layer called the pinacoderm.
Do not have a basal lamina.

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Archeocytes

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Phylum Porifera (SPONGES)
Cells that wander through the mesohyl by cytoplasmic streaming.
Help sponges develop into more specialized cells.
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Choanocytes

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Phylum Porifera (SPONGES)
Flagellated cell with a collar of protoplasm that line the internal chambers of sponges
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Phylum Cnidaria (CORALS, HYDRAS, JELLYFISH)

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  • Class Hydrozoa
  • Class Anthozoa
  • Class Cubozoa
  • Class Scyphozoa
  • Class Staurozoa
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Class Hydrozoa

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Phylum Cnidaria.
Solitary or colonial.
E.g. hydra, Obelia, Portuguese man o’ war.
Generalized by greater representation of polyp morph in life cycle.
Lack nematocysts and no cells in mesoglea.

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Class Anthozoa

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Phylum Cnidaria
Contains corals and anemones
Colonial (colony)

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Order Actinia

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Phylum Cnidaria, Class Anthozoa

True sea-anemones

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Order Scleractinia

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Phylum Cnidaria, Class Anthozoa

Hard stony corals

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Class Cubozoan

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Phylum Cnidaria

Box jellies

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Class Scyphozoan

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Phylum Cnidaria
True jellies
G:
1. Cnidocytes (with nematocyst)
2. Radial symmetry 
3. Tissue-level development - diploblastic
     a) body two cell layers thick
     b) epidermis - mesoglea - gastrodermis
4. gastrovascular cavity
5. two body forms: polyp / medusa

Epidermis -> outer layer of skin on the body. Protection and keeps the skin hydrated.

Mesoglea -> gelatinous substance between the endoderm and ectoderm of sponges or cnidarians

Gastrodermis -> the lining membrane of the tract of an invertebrate.

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Class Staurozoan

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Phylum Cnidaria

Solitary stalked polyps

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Nematocyst

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Specialized cells in tentacles of jellyfish that have a venomous thread that extends outwards in self-defense or to capture prey.

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Cnidocyte

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Specialized cells in the phylum Cnidaria that have an explosive organelle called cnidocyst that helps capture prey and self defense.

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Phylum Ctenophora

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Comb jellies
G:
1. Move with cilia - comb plates
2. Bi-radial symmetry
3. Diploblastic
4. Collenchyma
5. Monoecious - sexual reproduction
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Monoecious

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Male and female reproductive parts on same animal. hermaphrodite.

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Collenchyme

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In plants, support tissue of living elongated cells with irregular cell walls.

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Bilateria

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Phylum Xenacoelomorpha (Acoela)
Phylum Gnathostomulida
Phylum Rotifera
Phylum Acanthocephala (probably in Rotifera)
Phylum Gastrotricha
Phylum Mesozoa
Phylum Platyheliminthes
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Phylum Xenacoelomorpha (Acoela)

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G:

  1. Some with gastrovascular cavity (many with no gut)
  2. Monoecious - sexual reproduction
  3. Radially arranged nerve cords
  4. Most commensalist or mutualist
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commensalist

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an association between two organisms in which one benefits and the other derives neither benefit nor harm

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mutualist

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type of symbiotic relationship where all species involved benefit from their interactions

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Phylum Gnathostomulida

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Lophotrochozoa
Clade Gnathifera
1. Acoelomate
2. Jaw worms

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Acoelomate

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an invertebrate lacking a coelom

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Phylum Rotifera

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Lophotrocohozoa

  1. Clade Gnathifera
  2. Class Bdelloidea
  3. Class Seisonidea
  4. Class monogononta
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Class Bdelloidea

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Lophotrochozoan
Clade Gnathifera
Phylum Rotifera
1. Freshwater / terrestrial
2. All female
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Class seisonidea

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Lophotrochozoan
Clade Gnathifera
Phylum Rotifera
1. Marine
2. All female
3. Epizoic
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Class monogononta

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Lophotrochozoan
Clade Gnathifera
Phylum Rotifera
1. Myctic rotifers
2. Undergo myxis in response to stress
G:
1. Wheel organ / corona
2. Mastax
3. Eutely
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Corona / Wheel organ

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The corona is a ciliary organ provided with intrinsic musculature, which is used for prey capture and locomotion.

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mastax

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the muscular pharynx of a rotifer, containing a chewing apparatus

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Eutely

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the condition of having a body made up of a constant number of cells

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Phylum Acanthocephala (probably in rotifera)

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Lophotrochozoan
Clade Gnathifera
G: 
1. Vertebrate endoparasites
2. Spiny proboscis
3. Syncytial outer surface
4. Dioecious
5. Protonephridia
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vertebrate endoparasites

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Endoparasites are parasites that live in the tissues and organs of their hosts, such as tapeworms, flukes, and protozoans of vertebrates.

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spiny proboscis

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The proboscis is used to pierce the gut wall of the final host, and hold the parasite fast while it completes its life cycle.

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syncytial outer surface

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a multinucleate mass of cytoplasm resulting from fusion of cells

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dioecious

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having the male and female reproductive organs in separate individuals.

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protonephridia

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network of dead-end tubules lacking internal openings

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Phylum Gastrotricha

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Lophotrochozoan
Clade Gnathifera
1. Spiny / hairy stomach
    a) sometimes called hair-bellied worms
2. Acoelomate
3. Protonephridia
4. Found in places similar to rotifers
     a) freshwater, marina, "terrestrial"
     b) interstitial spaces in sediments
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Phylum Mesozoa

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Lophotrochozoan
Clade Gnathifera
1. Rhombozoans (tiny parasites)
2. Orthonectids (parasites of marine invertebrates)

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Phylum Platyhelminthes

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Lophotrochozoan
Clade Gnathifera
Class turbellaria (not monophyletic)
Class Trematode
CLADE NEODERMATA
Class monogenea
Class cestoda
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Class Turbellaria (not monophyletic)

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Lophotrochozoan
Clade Gnathifera
Phylum Platyhelminthes
1. mostly free living
2. Planaria (one of the many flatworms)
3. Regeneration
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Class trematoda

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Lophotrochozoan
Clade Gnathifera
Phylum Platyhelminthes
1. Flukes
2. Diverse life cycles related to parasitism / hosts
a) egg - miracidium (larva) - sporocyst (adult) - redia (adult) - cercaria (larva) - metacercaria - fluke (adult)
b) intermediate host often a gastropod

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Class monogenea

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Lophotrochozoan
Clade Gnathifera
Phylum Platyhelminthes
Clade Nerodermata
1. Monogenic flukes
2. Attachment organs: prothaptor - opisthaptor
3. Ectoparasites
4. Oncomiracidium larva
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Class Cestoda

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Lophotrochozoan
Clade Gnathifera
Phylum Platyhelminthes
Clade Neodermata
1. Tapeworms
2. Scolex - proglottids
3. Scolex  homologous to opisthaptor
4. No gut - microtriches
5. Monoecious
G:
1. Free-living or parasitic (many)
2. Acoelomate
3. Bilateral symmetry
4. Organ-level development
5. Syncytial tegument
6. Gastrovascular cavity (or none)
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Monogenetic flukes

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Monogenetic flukes spend their entire life cycle as parasites on a single host

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Prohaptor

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the complex anterior attachment organ of a typical monogenetic trematode

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opisthaptor

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the posterior and usually complex adhesive organ of a monogenetic trematode

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Ectoparasites

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organisms that live on the skin of a host

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Scolex

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the anterior end of a tapeworm, bearing suckers and hooks for attachment

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proglottids

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each segment in the strobila of a tapeworm, containing a complete sexually mature reproductive system.

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microtriches

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increase the surface area of the teguments for enhanced absorption of nutrients