Invertebrata
Invertebrata
Characteristics of Porifera :
• Aquatic filter feeders
• Diploblastic ( consist two layers )
• Lives in aquatic environments,mostly marine
• Most are asymmetrical
• Adult form is sessile (doesn’t move)
• Have no tissues, organs, or organ systems or
nervous system
• Body multicelluler, there is no true body
cavity
• Often have a skeleton of spicules
• Reproduction : asexual (budding), sexual
(fertilization)
Basic Body Plan
CLASSIFICATION OF PORIFERA
This group includes hydra, jellyfish, obelia, man of war, and coral
Reproduction
• Asexual
• Budding, fragmentation and
regeneration
• Sexual
• Hermaphrodites
• Have both male and
female parts
• Fertilization takes place in
water
• Larvae swims to area to
start new sponge
Hydra Budding
CLASSIFICATION OF CNIDARIA
Triploblastic
Acoelomata (have no body cavity)
Bilateral symmetry and have no segment.
Haven’t circulation system
Gastrovasculer
Parasit, except Planaria
Excretion organ by flame cell
Hermaprodit.
Phylum Platyhelminthes (Flat
worms)
• Free living
• Hermaphrodites
• Can reproduce
asexually by dividing
and regeneration
2. Class
Cestoda (Tape
Worms)
• Parasitic
• Hermaphrodites
3. Class Trematoda
Characteristics :
• bilateral symmetry
• soft flattened body
• 3 tissue layers
• Incomplete digestive
system
• definite organs
• nervous tissue
• many are parasites but
some are free living
Phylum Nematoda
Round worms
Phylum nematoda
• Characteristic
• Complete digestive
system
• 3 tissue layers
• organs present
Types of Roundworms
• Ascaris – round and pin worms
common human parasites
• Trichinella
• Hook worms
• Heart worms
• Filarial worms
• Many in Large intestine
• 64% of worlds population
• 30% of children in US
• 16% of the adults in the US
Phylum Annelida
• Characteristics
• Have body cavities with organs
• Bilateral symmetry
• Closed circulatory system
• Complete digestive system
• True coelom
• Respire through the skin
• Each segment has bristle like structure called setae for
movement
• Systems
• Digestive
• Mouth, crop, gizzard, intestines, anus
• Circulatory system of two main vessels,
5 aortic arches that pump blood
• Nervous system that responds to the
environment
• Respiratory system that exchanges
oxygen and carbon dioxide through the
skin
• Reproductive system (hermaphrodite)
Leeches
millipedes
4. Class Crustaceans
Characteristics of Crustacea
• Jaws called mandibles – crush food
• 1 and 2 antennae
• Have 1,2 or 3 body segments
• 5 pairs of legs
• The first pair of many have claws to catch and hold food
• 2cnd pair – 5th used for moving
• Some have five pair of appendages on abdomen
called swimmeret’s
• For movement, reproduction and water over gills
• Can regenerate appendages
Examples include lobster, crab crayfish, shrimp, and
pill bugs
Phylum Echinodermata
• Spiny skinned animals
• Characteristics
• Marine bottom dwellers
• Internal skeleton of Calcium Carbonate
plates covered by a spiny skin
• Have a water vascular system
• Tube feet
• Ring canal
• Do not have a complete digestive system
• Sea stars – 5 or more arms around a central point
• Brittle stars - move more quickly and break off parts as defense
• Sea Urchins and sand dollars
• Sea cucumbers
Echinoderm classification
Asteroidea
Ophiuroidea Echinoidea
Holothuroidea