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Animal Taxonomy
General Biology 2 Taxonomy
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Biology
Undergraduate 3
03/01/2011

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Term
Phylum Porifera
Definition

Sponges. No true tissues or symmetry.

Have spicules and choanocytes (collar cells) that move water and filter food.

Asexual reproduction by budding.

Term
Subkingdom Eumetazoa
Definition

All animals except sponges and placazoans.

Have true tissue layers, symmetry, gut, and special cell junctions.

Term
Radiata
Definition

Phylums Ctenophora and Cnidaria.

Diploblastic animals.

Have mesoglea between cell layers.

Term
Phylum Ctenophora
Definition

Have complete gut.

Many are hermaphroditic.

Term
Phylum Cnidaria
Definition

Classes Hydrozoa, Scyphozoa, and Anthozoa.

Have cnidocytes, an incomplete gut.

Polyp and medusa stages.

Nerve nets and epithelial cells with muscle fibers.

Term
Class Hydrozoa
Definition
Portugese-man-of-war
Term
Class Scyphozoa
Definition

A.K.A Jellyfish.

Are either male or female.

Term
Class Anthozoa
Definition
Sea anemones, corals
Term
Bilateria
Definition

Tripoblastic Animals (3 embryonic cell layers).

Bilateral Symmetry.

Protostomes and Deuterostomes

 

Term
Protostomes
Definition

Lophotrocozoans and Ecydsozoans.

1st blastophore becomes the mouth.

Term
Superphyla Lophotrochozoans
Definition

Phylums Platyhelminthes, Rotifera, Annelida, Mollusca, Nematoda, and Arthropoda.

Typical larvae is trochophore larvae.

 

Term
Phylum Platyhelminthes
Definition

Classes Turbellaria, Trematoda, and Cestoda.

Flatworms.

Acoelomate, incomplete gut.

Have simple organs (flame cells) for excretion.

Term
Class Turbellaria
Definition
Have cephalization.
Term
Class Trematoda
Definition
Flukes
Term
Class Cestoda
Definition
tapeworms
Term
Phylum Rotifera
Definition

Rotifers

Pseudocoelomates

Complete gut

 

Term
Ribbon worms
Definition

Coelomate

Closed circulatory system

Complete gut

Term

Phronids

 

Definition

Coelomate

Small marine worms

Closed circulatory system

Term
Brachiopods
Definition

Coelomate

Resemble bivalve mollusks

Open circulatory system

Term
Phylum Annelida
Definition

Polychaetes, Clitellates (oligiochaetes and hirudinea)

Annelids

Coelomate

Segmented, coelom in each segment separated from the other segement.

Circulatory system can be open or closed.

Term
Polychaetes
Definition

Mostly marine

Pogonophorans- polychaetes that lost their digestive tract, live near hydrothermal vents.

 

Term
Clitellates (Oligiochaetes and Hirudinea)
Definition

Oligiochaetes- (earthworms) lack eyes, have closed circulatory systems, and are hermaphroditic.

 

Hirudinea- (leeches) have suckers and secrete hirudin.

Term
Phylum Mollusca
Definition

Classes Polyplacophora, Gastropoda, Cephalopoda.

Mollusks

Have reduced coelom.

Foot, visceral mass, and mantle.

Have open circulatory system.

Cephalopods have a hemocoel.

Term
Class Polyplacophora
Definition
Chitons- scrape algae
Term
Class Gastropoda
Definition
Snails, slugs, nudibranchs (sea slugs)
Term
Class Bivalvia
Definition

Clams, oysters, scallops, mussels.

Have siphon for scraping algae.

Term
Class Cephalopoda
Definition

Squids, octopuses, and nautiluses.

Closed circulatory system.

Term
Phylum Echinodermata
Definition

Classes Asteroidia, Ophuroidia, Echinoidia, Holothuroidia, and Crinoida.

Bilaterally symmetrical larvae.

Water Vascular system.

Some are filter feeders.

Some use tube feet to capture prey.

 

 

Term
Superphyla Ecydsozoans
Definition

Have exoskeleton, worms have cuticle.

Phylums Arthropoda and Nematoda

Term
Phylum Nematoda
Definition

Round worms.

Some are parasitic.

Can get long but must stay small in diameter.

 

Term
Phylum Arthropoda
Definition

Chelicerates, Arachnids, Crustaceans, Myriapods, and Hexapods.

Coelomate (hemocoel)

Open circulatory system, segmentation, hard exoskeleton, and specialized appendages.

Dominant animals on earth.

Larvae is naupilus.

Term
Chelicerates
Definition

Horseshoe crabs, class arachnids.

Head and trunk.

Term
Class Crustacea
Definition

Dominant marine animals.

Head, thorax, and abdomen.

Decapods- shrimp and lobsters

Isopods- krill

Copepods- barnacles

Myriapods- Classes Chilopoda and Diplopoda

 

Term
Insects/Hexapods
Definition

Dominant terrestrial animals.

Head, thorax, abdomen.

Complete or incomplete metamorphosis.

Unique- gas exchange- spiracles to tracheae.

Wingless or Winged (can't fold wings OR can fold wings and incomplete metamorphosis OR can fold winds and complete metamorphosis OR have wings and can't fly)

Term
Ambulicarians
Definition
Radial symmetry as adults, loss of pharyngeal gill slits.
Term
Class Asteroidea
Definition
Sea stars
Term
Class Ophiroidea
Definition
Brittle stars
Term
Class Echinoidea
Definition

Sea urchins and sand dollars.

Lack arms and covered with spines.

Term
Class Holothuroidea
Definition

Sea cucumbers

 

Term
Class Crinoidea
Definition
Sea lilies
Term
Hemichordates
Definition
Acorn worms
Term
Phylum Chordata
Definition
Subphylums Urochordata, Cephalochordata, and Vertebrata.
Term
Subphylum Urochordata
Definition
Urochordates- tunicates
Term
Subphylum Cephalochordata
Definition

Cephalochordates- lancelets

Are very small.

Term
Subphylum Vertebrata
Definition

Vertebrates

Superclass Agnatha

Classes Chrondrichthyes, Osteichthyes, Amphibia, Reptilia, Aves, and Mammalia.

Term
Superclass Agnatha
Definition

Jawless fishes

Hagfishes- cartilaginous

Lampreys- cartilaginous, many parasitic

Term
Gnathostomes
Definition
Jaw mouths
Term
Class Chondrichthyes
Definition
Chondrichthyans- cartilaginous fishes
Term
Class Osteichthyes
Definition

Ray-finned fishes- bony fishes

 

Term
Coelacanths
Definition
Thought to have gone extinct but were found again in 1938.
Term
Lungfishes
Definition
Have lungs and gills.
Term
Class Amphibia
Definition
Amphibians- tetrapod legs allowed movement from water to land.
Term
Amniotes
Definition

Class Reptilia and Aves

Skin impermeable to water, kidneys excrete concentrated urine, amniotic egg.

Term
Class Reptilia and Aves
Definition
Reptiles- includes birds and squamates.
Term
Class Mammalia
Definition
Mammals
Term
Caecilians
Definition
wormlike, limbless, tropical burrowing animals
Term
Anurans
Definition
Frogs and toads
Term
Urodeles
Definition
Salamanders
Term
Lepidosaurs
Definition
Tuataras and Squamates
Term
Tuataras
Definition
Resmemble lizards, only 2 species survive
Term
Squamates
Definition
Lizards, snakes, and amphisbaenians
Term
Archosaurs
Definition
Crocodillians, Pterosaurs, Dinosaurs, and Birds.
Term
Palaeognaths
Definition

Secondarily flightless or weak flyers

 

Tinamou, rhea, emu, kiwi, cassowary, ostrich

Term
Neognaths
Definition
Most retained ability to fly and have more species.
Term
Prototherians
Definition
Platypus and Echidnas
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