Lesson 5 - Echinoderms And fish Flashcards
(21 cards)
What does ‘Echino’ ‘Dermata’ mean?
Spiny Skin
T/F - All echinoderms are marine
True
What is the water vascular system?
1000’s of tube feet
Asteroidea Class?
Sea Stars
Echinoidea Class?
Sea Urchins
Holothuroidea Class?
Sea Cucumbers
Ophiuroidea Class?
Brittle Stars
Crinoidea Class?
Sea Lillies
What is a sea stars tube feet called?
Podia
How do Asteroidea eat?
Invert stomach onto prey
Describe a Echnoidea body? (2)
Enclosed in endoskeletal test. Spines for defence
How do Holothuroidea defend themselves?
Expel quickly regenerating internal organs
Ophiuroidea characteristics? (2)
Most diverse, locomotion by arms/no suckers,
Crinoidea behaviour?
Filter feeders use tube feet to sweep food particles to mouth, many are sessile
Agnatha definition and examples? (3)
Without jaws, hagfish and lamprey.
Agnatha do what in defence?
Jet slime
Chondrichthyes class? (3)
Sharks, rays, chimaeras
What does Chondrichthyes mean?
Cartiligious fish
Selachii Order?
Sharks
Selachii characteristics? (3)
No swim bladder, Ampullae of Lorenzini, Live young
Example of Lobe finned fish
Lungfish, use fins to walk