Animal Unit Test Flashcards
Phylum Nematoda
(Round Worms)
Bilateral
Pseudocoelomate
Complete digestive system
Ecdysis
Ecdysis
Molting exoskeleton
Pseudocoelomate
Fake Body cavity
Phylum Mollusca
(Snails, Clams, Squids)
Soft-bodied with a hard shell
Bilateral symmetry
Complete digestive system
Very large
Mollusks
Breath through the mantle
Cephalopods
Squid’s
-Chromatophores color changing
Phylum Arthropoda
(Insects, Spiders, Crustaceans)
Exoskeleton composed of chitin
Segmented body (head, thorax, abdomen)
Jointed Appendages (arms, legs)
Phylum Echinodermata
(Starfish, sea urchins)
Radial symmetry
Endoskeleton made of calcareous plates
Water vascular system
Fluid filled tubes that help feed, move, breath within the star fish
Phylum Chordata
(Fish, Amphibians, Reptiles, birds, mammals)
Bilateral
Notochord (skeletal support)
Dorsal hollow nerve cord (central nervous system)
Pharyngeal slits (gills-filters)
Post-anal tail (having tail lost as chordate develops)
Chordates
Things with vertebrate
Gastropoda
Snails
Bivalves
2 shells that hinge
Clams/shells
Ectoderm
Outer most layer
Mesoderm
Middle layer