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Echinoderms
Major Features
1)"Pentaradial" Body Symmetry
2)Water Vascular System
3)No head, No brain
4)Touch, chemoreception, photoreceptors, statocyst
5)Dermal Endoskeleton
Echinodermata
1)Crinoidea
2)Asteroidea
3)Ophiuroidea
4)Echinoidea
5)Holothuroidea
1)Crinoidea
2)Asteroidea
3)Ophiuroidea
4)Echinoidea
5)Holothuroidea
1)sea lilies and feather stars
2)sea stars
3)brittle stars, basket stars
5)sea urchins
4)sea cucumbers
Arthropodstin
1)Chelicerates
2)Crustacea
3)Uniramia
1)Chelicerates
2)Crustacea
3)Uniramia
1)Horseshoe crabs, spiders, ticks, mites, scorpions and sea spiders
2)Lobsters, crabs, shrimp, copepods, ostracods, tadpole shrimp, krill
3)Insects, centipedes, millipedes
Major Features of Arthropods
1)Segmented body plan w/ tagma and extensive specialization of segments
2)Multiple jointed appendages w/ varied function
3)Locomotion by extrinsic muscle limb muscles instead of body (polycheates)
4)Exoskeleton well developed and made of chitin
5)Trachae are a novel breathing system
6)Complex behaviors
Keys to Phenomenal Success of Arthropods
1)Versatile exoskeleton
2)Extensive development of segmentation and appendages
3)Air piped directly to cells via tracheal system sustains high metabolic rate
4)Well developed sensory systems (compound eye)
5)Metamorphosis (allows specialization of different life stages)
Chelicerata
1)Pycnogonida
2)Merostomata
3)Arachnida
1)Pycnogonida
2)Merostomata
3)Arachnida
1)sea spiders
2)horseshoe crabs
3)spiders, scorpions, mites
Major Features of Chelicerata
1)6 pairs of cephalothoracic appendages including chelicerae (mouthparts)
2)1 pair modified into of pedipalps
3)4 pairs of legs
4)No antennae
5)Most feed by sucking liquid from their prey
Diplopoda: Millipede
-each segment has 2 legs
-simple eyes
Centipede: Chilopoda
- appendages of first body segment modified as poison fang
- last pair of legs are modified for a sensory role
Crustaceans
The only arthropods with 2 pairs of antennae
-appendages are biramous
-respiration by gills
-16-20 body segments (somites)
-carapace, cephalothorax
Insects/Insecta
1)More insect species than all other metazoans combined
2)3 pairs of legs, and usually 2 pairs of wings
3)Dominate virtually every earth zone, except ocean
4)Diversity in wings, legs, antennae, mouthparts
5)Flight (no other invertebrate group can)
Competing Hypothesis for the Origin of Wings
1)Wings evolved for flight

2)Wings evolved as thermo-regulatory structures and were co-opted later for flight
Mollusc features
1)Radula
2)Mantle (and cavity with paired gills)
3)Muscular foot
4)Calcareous spicules produced by mantle
Molluscs are not segmented
Radula
-rasping organ for feeding
-uniquely molluscan feature
Important Features of the Mantle
1)Outer surface secretes shell
2)Encloses the MANTLE CAVITY that often houses the respiratory organs in aquatic forms
3)Respiratory organs develop from the mantle, and the surface of the mantle cavity can also serve as gas exchange surface for respiration
4)Mantle cavity serves as a repository for waste products and gametes - PUMP (water)
Important Functions of the Muscular Foot
LOCOMOTION
(burrowing, crawling, jet propulsion)
4 major Molluscan Groups (Classes)
1)Polyplacophora
2)Gastropoda
3)Bivalvia
4)Cephalopoda
1)Polyplacophora
2)Gastropoda
3)Bivalvia
4)Cephalopoda
1)Chitons
2)Snails, slugs, nudibranchs
3)Clams
4)Squids and octopus
Polyplacophora - Chitons
1)Flattened, multi-plated (7-8)
2)Small, intertidal grazers
3)Very large muscular foot
4)Strong radula for grazing algae
5)Small home ranges (never move more than a meter or twon in their lives)
6)Common in CA tidal pools
Bivalvia - Clams
1) No radula, reduced head
2)Shell with 2 "valves" held together by a hinge
3)Most are filter feeders
- Gills (greatly enlarged)
4)Either sessile, or locomotion with a protrusable foot
Gastropoda - snails, slugs, nudibranchs
1)Large, diverse group
2)Univalve - one piece only
3)Freshwater, marine, terrestial
4)Undergo torsion
5)Undergo coiling
6)Feeds with a radula
7)In the marine NUDIBRANCHS, shell is lost completely
8)In terrestial snails and slugs, gills are lost but mantle cavity becomesa functional lung for extractign oxygen
Torsion
Developmental period in which the mantle cavity is twisted 180 degrees with respect to the foot.
Brings the anus over the mouth
Unclear why this developed
Coiling
Results in asymmetrically-oriented shell over the body and most paired organs lost on the right side of the body
Primitive (Original) Metazoan Characteristics
1)Multicellular animals
2)Specialzed cell types
3)Presence of collagen
4)Sexual reproduction
5)Marine
Derived Characteristics of Bilateria
1)Bilateral body symmetry
2)Triplobalstic (ectoderm, mesoderm, endoderm)
Other Typical Features of Bilateria
1)Circulatory system
2)Nervous system
3)Sexual Reproduction
4)Tissue and organ-level organization
Ceolom
Fluid-filled space that surrounds the gut.
Allows for:
Greater flexibility
Space for visceral organs
Becomes a hydrostatic skeleton in some forms
(All bilateria except Platyhelminthes)
Protostomes vs. Deuterostomes
Protostomes
Cleavage pattern: spiral
Early cell fate: determinate
Coelom forms by: schizocoely
Blastopore becomes: mouth
Deuterostomes
Cleavage pattern: radial
Early cell fate: indeterminate
Coelom forms by: entercoely
Blastopore becomes: anus
Key Features of Annelids
1)Segmented (metamaric) - seperated by septum.
2)Ceolem
3)Closed circulatory system, complete digestive tract
4)Longitudinal and circular muscle arrangement
5)Setae (bristles) used as anchors or for swimming
Annelida Classes
1)Hirudinea
2)Oligochaeta
3)Polychaeta
1)Hirudinea
2)Oligochaeta
3)Polychaeta
1)leeches
2)earthworms
3)marine worms
Annelida Characteristics
1)Paired epidermal setae, annelid head
2)Hermaphroditism
3)Parapodia, complex head
4)Molecular traits
5)Sucker
Feeding diversity in Polychaeta
- active predators
- active filter feeders
- pumps water into its
tube and filters particles in secreted mucous
Osedax
Polychaete that lives on bones of dead whales, digesting bones with the aid of bacterial symbionts
Oligochaeta - earthworms
- soil and freshwater
- but very effective setae aid in burrowing
- can be very big
- critical part of soil biota
- Many aquatic oligochaetes are important food sources for other organisms
Hirudinea: Leeches
- Mostly freshwater, some terrestial, a few marine
- 1/2=predacious/scavengers
1/2=parasitic
- lack setae
- have a gut that is specilaized for ingestsing large volumes of liquid (blood)
- suckers at each end are used for attachment to prey and locomotion
Platyhelminthes
Basic Body Plan
1)Bilateral symmetry with distinct anterior and posterior
2)3 primary germ layers:
Ectoderm, mesoderm, and endoderm
3)Body dorso-ventrally flattened. Oral and genital openings mostly on ventral surface.
Platyhelminthes
Synapomorpies
1)Endolecithal eggs
2)Ectolecithal eggs
3)Anterior Adhesive organ
4)Posterior adhesive organ (cercomer) with hooks
5)Loss of arthropod host. Ectoparasite.
6)Tegument covered with microvilli
7)No digestive tract
8)6 hooks on cercomere form scolex
Trematodes
(Class of platyhelminthes)
1) Parasitic flukes (endoparasites of vertebrates)
2) Digenea (main group) has mollusc as intermediate host and vertebrate as final host
3) Inhabit a wide range of sites: digestive tract, respiratory tract, circulatory system, urinary tract, reprod. tract
- Life cycles
Monogeneans
(Class of Platyhelminthes)
- external parasites mainly on gills and skin of fish
- single host, diversity in hook morphology
Cestodes
Characteristics
1)Holdfast: scolex
2)Reproductive unit: proglottids
3)No digestive tract, microvilli in skin
4)Require 2 hosts, adult usually vertebrates
Factors Influencing Body Plans
1) Environment type
2) Body size and limits to diffusion
3) Lifestyle (motile, sessile, feeding mode)
Major Innovations in Cnidaria
1) Cnidocytes that house nematocytes
2) Planula larvae
3) Dimorphic body plan (Medusa polyp)
4) Light sensitive organs (rhopalia)
Major Innovations in Cnidaria and Ctenophores
1) Diploblastic: ectoderm and endoderm
2) Radial Symmetry
3) Muscle cells
4) Nerve Cells
5) Statocyst
Classes of Cnidaria
1) Anthozoans
2) Hydrozoans
3) Scyphozoa
4) Cubozoa
1) Anthozoans
2) Hydrozoans
3) Scyphozoa
4) Cubozoa
1)anenomes, corals
2)colonial stinging polyps
3)jellyfish
4)box-jellies
Anthozoa
polyps only, can be large, no medusae, solitary or colonial, anemones, corals
Typical Anthazoan Life Cycle
eggs/sperm
planula larvae
dioecious or monoecious polyps
Hydrozoa
Polyps and medusae, solitary and colonial, small medusae forms, hydra, hydroids, Physalia (Portuguese man-of-war)
Scyphozoa
Mostly medusae, medusae lack velum; large jellyfish
Cubozoa
Polyp stage reduced; cuboidal medusae; Chironex (deadly sea wasp)
Synapomorphy
- a shared, derived characteristic
- defines monophyletic groups
Phylum Porifera
(Sponges)
Key Characteristics
- considered the simplest of Metazoans: lack specialized organ systems
- life style based on cellular water pump (filter feeding)
- structural support by fibers or spicules embedded in mesohyl
Distribution of Porifera
- Most are marine, a few freshwater
- Intertidal to deep sea, tropical to Antarctic
- Caribbean reefs
Classes of Sponges
(classififed by skeleton type)
1)Calcarea
2)Hexactinellida
3)Demospongiae
Class Calcarea
- Calcium carbonate spicules
- spicules formed extracellularly
- ascon, sycon, leucon, small species
Class Hexactinellida
- Siliceous spicules, 6-rayed
- sycon, leucon, unusual syncytial structure
- Deep water
Class Demospongiae
- siliceous spicules, also tough fibers of the protein spongin
- spicules formed intracellularly
- largest number of freshwater species
- "Bath" sponges
Aquiferous System
- The central feature of a sponge's body plan
- inhalent surface pores or OSTIA collect water
- pinacocyte-lined
Asexual Sponge Reproduction
- Archaeocytes= totipotent stem cells
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Sexual Reproduction
- diocecious or monoecious
- Choanocytes- sperm
- Archaeocytes- eggs
- Sperm released, eggs fertilized in situ
- swimming larvae released
Sponge Reproduction Larval Types
1)Amphiblastula
2)Parenchymula