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25 Cards in this Set
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Radula |
A rasping, tongue-like organ that is found in all mollusks except bivalves |
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Lion’s Mane |
The largest known species of jellyfish |
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Valve |
Another term for a mollusk shell |
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Radula |
A rasping, tongue-like organ that is found in all mollusks except bivalves |
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Chitons |
Animals found on rough marine shore lines with 8 overlapping plates on their dorsal surface |
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Nematocyts |
The most common type of cnidae |
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Budding |
“Mini me” grows on the side of the polyp with a functional mouth and tentacles |
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Fission |
When an individual divides in half as one side of the polyp pulls away from the other side |
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Strobilation |
Polyps make other polyps asexually, but will eventually produce a medusa by a type of budding |
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Sea turtles |
Common predators of jellyfish |
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Ocelli |
Sensory structures used for light receptions |
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Sea anemone |
“Flowers of the sea” form symbiotic relationships with clownfish and hermit crabs |
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Mesoglea |
Acts like glue between the two body layers of jellyfish |
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Prismatic |
Name of the middle layer of the mollusk shell |
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Pore bearing |
The name of Porifera means |
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Red wood |
The giant barrel sponge is nicknamed “_________ of the reef |
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Dimorphism |
Organism with two different body forms |
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Radial |
Sea anemones haves this type of symmetry |
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Sea wasp |
A large box jelly |
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Irukandji |
Only jellyfish with a stingers on its bell and is only 2.5cm long |
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Cubozoa |
Box jellies named for their cube shaped medusae |
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HMS beagle |
The boat that Charles Darwin traveled for five years studying organisms |
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mantle cavity |
space inside the mantle where the internal organs are located |
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umbo |
oldest part of the shell of a bivalve from which the shell grows |
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adductor muscles |
muscles of a bivalve that keep the shell tightly closed |
