Animal Phyla Study Cards Custom

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Porifera
calcaria hexactinellida demospongiae sclerospongiae

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1)No definite symmetry.
2)Body multicellular, few tissues, no organs.
3)Cells and tissues surround a water filled space but there is no true body cavity.
4)All are sessile, (live attached to something as an adult).
5)Reproduce sexually or asexually, sexual reproduction can be either gonochoristic or hermaphroditic.
6)Has no nervous system.
7)Has a distinct larval stage which is planktonic.
8)Lives in aquatic environments, mostly marine.
9)All are filter feeders.
10)Often have a skeleton of spicules.

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Cnideria
hydrazoa scyphozoa cubozoa anthozoa

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1)Radially Symmetrical.
2)Body multicellular, few tissues, some organelles.
3)Body contains an internal cavity and a mouth.
4)Two different forms exist, medusa and polyp
5)Reproduction is asexual or sexual.
6)Has a simple net like nervous system.
7)Has a distinct larval stage which is planktonic.
8)Lives in aquatic environments, mostly marine.
9)Mostly carnivorous otherwise filter feeders.
10)May have a minimal skeleton of chiton or calcium carbonate.

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Platyhelminthes
Turbellaria trematoda monogenea cestoda

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1)Bilaterally symmetrical.
2)Body having 3 layers of tissues with organs and organelles.
3)Body contains no internal cavity.
4)Possesses a blind gut (i.e. it has a mouth but no anus)
5)Has Protonephridial excretory organs instead of an anus.
6) nervous system of longitudinal fibres rather than a net.
7)Generally dorsoventrally flattened.
8)Reproduction mostly sexual as hermaphrodites.
9)Mostly they feed on animals and other smaller life forms.
10)Some species occur in all major habitats, including many as parasites of other animals.

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Nematoda

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1)Bilaterally symmetrical, and vermiform.
2)Body has more than two cell layers, tissues and organs.
3)Body cavity is a pseudocoel, body fluid under high pressure.
4)Body possesses a through gut with a subterminal anus.
5)Body covered in a complex cuticle.
6)Has a nervous system with pharyngeal nerve ring.
7)Has no circulatory system (no blood system)
8)Reproduction normally sexual and gonochoristic.
9)Feed on just about everything.
10)Live just about everywhere, many species are endoparasites.

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Mollusca

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1)Bilaterally symmetrical.
2)Body has more than two cell layers, tissues and organs.
3)Body without cavity.
4)Body possesses a through gut with mouth and anus.
5)Body monomeric and highly variable in form, may possess a dorsal or lateral shells of protein and calcareous spicules.
6)Has a nervous system with a circum-oesophagal ring, ganglia and paired nerve chords.
7)Has an open circulatory system with a heart and an aorta.
8)Has gaseous exchange organs called ctenidial gills.
9)Has a pair of kidneys.
10)Reproduction normally sexual and gonochoristic.
11)Feed a wide range of material.
12)Live in most environments.

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Arthropoda

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1)Bilaterally symmetrical (in most cases).
2)Body has more than two cell layers, tissues and organs.
3)Body cavity a true coelom.
4)Most possesses a through straight gut with an anus (in most cases).
5)Body possesses 3 to 400+ pairs of jointed legs.
6)Body possesses an external skeleton (in most cases).
7)Body is divided in 2 or 3 sections.
8)Nervous system includes a brain and ganglia.
9)Possesses a respiratory system in the form of tracheae and spiracles (in most cases).
10)Possesses a open or lacunnar circulatory system with a simple heart, one or more arteries, and no veins, (in most cases).
11)Reproduction normally sexual and gonochoristic, but can be parthenogenetic.
12)Feed on everything.
13)Live everywhere.

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Annelida
polychaeta oligochaeta hirudinea

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1)Bilaterally symmetrical and vermiform.
2)Body has more than two cell layers, tissues and organs.
3)Body cavity is a true coelom, often divided by internal septa.
4)Body possesses a through gut with mouth and anus.
5)Body possesses 3 separate sections, a prosomium, a trunk and a pygidium.
6)Has a nervous system with an anterior nerve ring, ganglia and a ventral nerve chord.
7)Has a true closed circulatory system.
8)Has no true respiratory organs.
9)Reproduction normally sexual and gonochoristic or hermaphoditic.
10)Feed a wide range of material.
11)Live in most environments.

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Echinodermata

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1)Possess 5-rayed symmetry, mostly radial, sometimes bilateral.
2)Body has more than two cell layers, tissues and organs.
3)Body cavity a true coelom.
4)Most possesses a through gut with an anus.
5)Body shape highly variable, but with no head.
6)Nervous system includes a circum-oesophageal ring.
7)Has a poorly defined open circulatory system.
8)Possesses a water vascular system, which hydraulically operates the tube feet or feeding tentacles.
9)Without excretory organs.
10)Normally possesses a subepidermal system of calcareous plates
11)Reproduction normally sexual and gonochoristic.
12)Feeds on fine particles in the water, detritus or other animals.
13)All live marine environments.

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Chordata

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1)Bilaterally symmetrical.
2)Body has more than two cell layers, tissues and organs.
3)Body cavity a true coelom.
4)Most possesses a through gut with a non-terminal anus.
5)Body monomeric with no head or jaws.
6)Possess at some stage of their life a hollow dorsal nerve tube.
7)Possess at some stage of their life a dorsal cartilaginous rod called a notochord.
8)Possess at some stage of their life gill slits in the parangeal region.
9)Has a partially open circulatory system.
10)Without excretory organs.
11)Reproduction normally sexual and gonochoristic.
12)Feed on a variety of organic materials.
13)All live marine environments.

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Arthropoda Trilobitomorpha

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3 main body sections
1 pair anttenea
biramous limbs, little differentiation
oval flattened shape
dorsal exoskel heavier than ventral
extinct

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Arthropoda chelicerata

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body in 2 main sections
no antennae
pre-oral feeding are chelicerae
post oral apps are 1 pair pedipalps 4 walking legs
breath by bronchiae, book lungs or tracheae
no metamorph

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Arthropoda crustacea

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2 pair antennae
body 3 sections
appends usually biramous
resp by gills
3 or more mouth parts, including mandibles
metamoph common

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Arthropoda uniramia

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uniramous limbs
breath by spiracles and tracheae
principle mouthparts are biting manbles
one pair antennea
metamorph common