Week 8 Flashcards
The lophophorates
Benthic, suspension feeders
Lophophorate phyla
Phoronida, Bryozoa, Brachiopoda
Spiralia
-Largest clade in protostomes
-Also called lophotrochozoa
Protostomes
Include three major clades, the largest being spiralia
Lophophore
- Crown of tentacles with a coelomic lumen
- Used for suspension feeding
- Food grooves pass trapped particles from tentacles to mouth opening
Phylum Phoronida
- Triploblastic
- Coelomate
- Bilaterally symmetrical
- Unsegmented
- Has lophophore
- U-shaped gut
- Closed circulatory system (anoxic environment, runs through tentacles)
- Nervous system is diffuse
- Metanephridia
- Radial cleavage
- Blastopore forms mouth (protostomy)
- Marine, benthic tube dwellers
-Sessile or colonial
-Actinotroch larva (free swimming, metamorphosis)
Phylum Bryozoa
- Triploblastic
-Coelomate
-Bilaterally symmetrical - Unsegmented
- Lophophore
- U- shaped gut with anus outside lophophore
- Circulatory and respiratory structures present
- Colonies, asexual budding, zooids
- Radial cleavage; mixed or indirect development
- Blastopore does not form mouth
-Sessile, marine or freshwater
Bryozoa zooids
-Zooids bear tubular tissue cord, funiculus
Zoecium
- In Bryozoans, may be chitonous, gelatinous, or calcareous
- A retractor muscle enables zooid to take shelter in zoecium
Bryozoan muscles
- Three sets of muscles operate the lophophore
1. Atrial sphincter
2. Retractor muscles
3. Atrial dilator muscles
Polymorphic zooids in colony
Autozooids and Heterozooids
Autozooids
Typical zooids bearing the lophophore
Heterozooids
Atypical zooids: Kenozooids, Avicularia, and Vibraculum
Kenozooids
Reduced individuals for attachment
Avicularia
Operculum modified to form a jaw for defense
Vibraculum
Flagellum-like operculum
Bryozoan larvae
The cyphonautes larva (unique to bryozoans)
Bryozoan reproduction
- The free living cyphonautes larva metamorphoses into ancestrula
- Asexual reproduction gives rise to daughter zooids, which continues to divide and form a colony
Phylum Brachiopoda (lamp shells)
- Triploblastic
- Coelomate
- Bilaterally symmetrical
- Unsegmented
- Body enclosed between two valves or shells (dorsal and ventral)
- Usually attached to substratum by pedicel or stalk
- Lophophore
- U-shaped gut, anus present or absent
- Metanephridia
- Circulatory is open
- Radial cleavage
- Blastopore closes; both mouth and anus form secondarily
- Sessile, marine, solitary