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Zoology Practical
Taxonomy
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Biology
Undergraduate 2
10/09/2012

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Term
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Definition
Flat Worm
Term
Class: Turbellaria
Definition
Dugesia (Planarians) meaning disturbance like. Light and touch response, feeding, regeneration
Term
Class: Cestoda
Definition
"girdle form"
Example: Taenia
Term
Phylum: Nematoda
Definition
"threadlike"
Example: Ascaris lumbricoides
Term
Phylum: Annelida
Definition
"Ringed"
Term
Class: Polychaeta
Definition
"many bristles"
Term
Subclass: Errantia
Definition
Example: Nereis (clam worm)
Term
Subclass: Sedentaria
Definition
Tubeworms and tubes
Term
Class: Clitellata
Definition
Subclasses include Oligochaeta and Hirundinea
Term
Subclass Oligochaeta
Definition
"few bristles"
Example: Lumbricus terrestriss
Term
Subclass Hirundinea
Definition
"leeches"
Term
Metamerism
Definition
Serial replication of body segments, along with their associated structures or organs
Term
Metamere
Definition
One of the body segments
Term
Clitellum:
Definition
a raised band of reproductive segments on some annelids
Term
Phylum: Echinodermata
Definition
Sea stars, brittle stars, and sea urchins
Term
Class: Asteroidea
Definition
"star like"
Example: Sea Stars
Term
Class Ophiuroidae
Definition
"snake tail"
Example: Brittle stars
Term
Class: Echinoidae
Definition
Sea urchins
Term
Phylum: Mollusca
Definition
Include classes: Gastropoda, Bivalvia, Cephalopoda, and Polyplacophora.
Term
Phylum: Mollusca characteristics
Definition
Bilateral symmetry
Two part body: head-foot; visceral mass
Mantle that secretes a calcareous shell to cover the viscera
Mantle cavity: gas exchange, waste removal, gamete release
Coelom of bivalves reduced to heart, nephridia, gonads
Open circulatory system
Term
Class: Gastropoda
Definition
"stomach foot"
Example: snails
Term
Class: Bivalvia
Definition
"2 door"
Examples: clams, oysters, etc
Term
Class: Cephalopoda
Definition
"head foot"
Examples: Nautilus, cuttlefish, squid, octopus
Term
Order Nautilida
Definition
"sailor"
Example: Nautilus
Term
Order: Sepiida
Definition
Cuttlefish
Term
Order: Teuthida
Definition
"10 feet"
Example: Squid
Term
Order: Octopoda
Definition
"8 feet"
Example: Octopus
Term
Class: Polyplacophora
Definition
"many plates"
Example: Chitins
Term
Phylum: Arthropoda
Definition
"joint foot"
Examples: Insects, arachnids, etc
Term
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Definition
"Fang horn" All have chelicerae
Example: Horseshoe crabs, spiders, scorpions, etc
Term
Class: Merostomata
Definition
"thigh mouth"
Example: horseshoe crabs
Term
Class: Arachnida
Definition
"spider"- 8 legs
Examples: Mites, cave spiders, spiders, shepherds, scorpions
Term
Order: Acari
Definition
Ticks and Mites
Term
Order: Amblypygi
Definition
Cave spiders
Term
Order: Araneae
Definition
spiders
Term
Order: Opiliones
Definition
"shepherd"
Example: Daddy Long Legs, Harvestmen
Term
Order: Scorpionida
Definition
Scorpion
Term
Subphylum: Crustacea
Definition
"Shelled"
Examples: barnacles, rolly pollys, crabs and lobsters etc.
Term
Class: Maxillipoda
Definition
"jawed feet"
Example: barnacles
Term
Subclass: Cirripedia
Definition
"haired feet"
Example: barnacles
Term
Class: Malocostraca
Definition
"soft shell"
Examples: rolly pollys and crabs, lobsters, shrimp, etc
Term
Order: Isopoda
Definition
"equal foot"
Example: roly poly
Term
Order: Decapoda
Definition
"ten feet"
Examples: Lobsters, shrimp, crabs, crayfish
Term
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Definition
Examples: insects,
Term
Class: Insecta
Definition
"cut into"
Examples: you know what insects are!
Term
Order: Blattaria
Definition
cockroaches
Term
Order: Coleoptera
Definition
beetles
Term
Order: Diptera
Definition
flies and mosquitoes
Term
Order: Hemiptera
Definition
true bugs
Term
Order: Hymenoptera
Definition
membrane wings (in bees, wasps, and ants)
Term
Order: Isoptera
Definition
equal wings
Term
Order: Lepidoptera
Definition
butterflies and moths
Term
Order: Mantodea
Definition
praying mantids
Term
Order Odonata
Definition
Damselflies and dragonflies
Term
Order Orthoptera
Definition
crickets and grasshoppers
Term
Order: Siphonaptera
Definition
fleas
Term
Subphylum: Myriapoda
Definition
"10,000 feet"
Centipedes and millipedes
Term
Class: Chilopoda
Definition
centipedes
Term
Class: Diplopoda
Definition
"2 foot" millipedes
Term
Ascaris lumbricoides
Definition
Know this species of nematode (nematoda)
Term
Lumbricus terrestris
Definition
Know this species of oligochaeta (earthworm)
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