Phylum Echinodermata Flashcards
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Emerging patterns of Deuterostomia
- Radial cleavage
- Enterocoely
- Trimeric body
- Dipleurula larva
In radial cleavage, the planes of cleavage are ___
perpendicular or parallel
In radial cleavage, the cytoplasm is divided ___
equally
In radial cleavage, cell fate is ___
regulative
In enterocoely, the coelom forms from ___
out-pocketing of the gut
In deuterostomes, the blastopore becomes the ___
anus
What are the sections of the deuterostome trimeric body?
- Protostome
- Mesosome
- Metasome
In the trimeric body, what does the protosome contain?
- Anterior pre-oral region
2. Protocoel
In the trimeric body, what does the mesosome contain?
- Mouth-bearing region
2. Mesocoel
In the trimeric body, what does the metasome contain?
- Gut and gonad region
2. Metacoel
Characteristics of dipleurula larva:
- Bilateral symmetry
- Planktotrophic
- Trimeric body
Phylum Echinodermata: Morphological characterisitcs
- Pentamerous radial symmetry (secondary)
- Internal skeleton made of calacareous ossicles
- Water-vascular system
- Mutable collagenous tissue (“catch tissue”)
- Heart-kidney (no known excretory function)
Phylum Echinodermata: Species
6,000
All marine
Phylum Echinodermata: Size
Large
0.5<100 cm
Phylum Echinodermata: Feeding
Filter feeders, herbivores, predators, detrivores
Phylum Echinodermata: Nervous system
Reduced nervous system, few sense organs
Phylum Echinodermata: Asexual reproduction
Fragmentation
Phylum Echinodermata: Sexes
Usually, separate sexes
Synapomorphies of Echinodermata
- Water vascular system
2. Pentaradial symmetry
Synapomorphies of Echinodermata and Hemichordata
- Dipleurula larva
2. Heart-kidney
Emerging patterns of Echinodermata
- Pentaradial symmetry
- Dipleurula larva
- Calcareous endoskeleton
- Tissues and cell types
- Appendages
What kind of symmetry is possessed by dipleurula larva?
Bilateral
What does the symmetry of dipleurula larva suggest?
That the ancestral adult was bilaterally symmetrical
What is the origin of pentardial symmetry in the larval stage?
The dipleurula larva undergoes complete reorganization of body axes to a radially symmetrical adult.