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Marine Biology Section 2
Invertebrates, fishes and other invertebrates, larval ecology, marshes, sea grass beds. etc.
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Biology
Undergraduate 3
11/06/2011

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Term
Mollusca
Definition

Head-Foot region

Radula = tooth structure in mouth

Mantle = tissue connected to the shell (creates the shell)

possibly a shell with periostacum and nacreous layers

Term
Choanaoflagellates
Definition

closest non animal species to an animal

uses 70 animal only proteins

looks like a sperm with a coat

Term
Metazoa
Definition
Animalia - all animals are metazoans
Term
Bilateria
Definition
Animals that have bilateral symetry
Term
Deuterostomia
Definition

bilataria that during development have their first blastopore become their anus not their mouth 

this is the opposite of a protostome

includes chordates, echinoderms and some others

Term
Lophotrochoazoa
Definition

Superphylum of bilataria

includes mollusks, rotifers, platyhelminthes and others

comprised of two groups

-trochozoans 

-lophophorata

Term
Protostomia
Definition

first blastopore becomes mouth

opposite to deuterostomes

Term
Ecdysozoa
Definition

molting animals

under bilataria

they have exoskeletons 

 

Term
Porifera
Definition

Sponges

distinguished by choanocytes and spicules

Demospongia

Hexactinella

Calcispongiae

Term
Demospongia
Definition

marine sponges

90% of all sponges are this

 

Term
Hexactinella
Definition

Glass sponges

latice like silica spicules form internal skeleton

can conduct electrical impulses throughout their bodies

Term
Calcispongiae
Definition

spicules of calcite or argonite

400 described species

typically small and drab in coloration

live in shallow marine habitats worldwide

Term
Cnidaria 
Definition

Distinguished by Cnidae (stinging cells)

jellyfish

usually have medusa and polyp forms (some only polyp)

contains

hydrozoa

scyphozoa

anthozoa

Term
Hydrozoa
Definition

hydroids

have polyp and medusa

fire corals, jellyfish - like siphonophores

Term
Scyphozoa
Definition

true jellyfish

 

Term
Anthozoa
Definition

anemones, stony corals (scleractinia), gorgonians (soft coral)

 

Term
Siphonophores
Definition

colonies of organisms that live together as one organism

jellyfish like (cnidaria)

ex. portugese manowar

Term
ctenophora
Definition

comb jellies with ctenes

 

Term
ctenes
Definition
silia fused at the base used for ctenophora locomotion
Term
Platyhelminthes
Definition
Flatworms
Term
Polyplacophora
Definition

chitons 

multi plated exoskeleton (like many shells on a snail)

Term
Gastropoda
Definition

snails, whelks, limpets, sea hares, nudibranchs

very diverse

Term
Bivalvia
Definition

clams, mussels, oysters

laterally compressed body with no head between 2 joined shells

umbo = oldest part of the shell

Aductor = muscle to close / open shell

Term
Cephalopoda
Definition

Squid, octopi

 

Term
Annelida
Definition
segmented worms
Term
Polychaeta
Definition

bristleworms

have parapodia with setae

Term
Nematoda
Definition
nematodes or roundworms
Term
Arthropoda
Definition

joint-legged animals

chelicerata

merostomata (horseshoe crabs)

pycnogonida (sea spiders)

Term
Pycnogonida
Definition

sea spiders

 

Term
Crustacea
Definition

copepods

cirripedia

malacostraca

isopoda

amphipoda

euphasiacea

decapoda

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