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Basic Classification and Anatomy of Phylums Echinodermata and Chordata
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Biology
Undergraduate 1
03/14/2011

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Term
Phylum Echinodermata
Definition
Echinoderms: sea lilies, sea stars, brittle stars, sea urchins, sand dollars, sea cucumbers
Term
where echinoderms are found?
Definition
all marine/bottom-dwellers
Term
type of symmetry for echinoderms?
Definition
radial (pentaradiate)
Term
echinoderms: deuterostomes or protostomes?
Definition
deuterostomes
Term
water-vascular system (echinoderms)
Definition
used to power tube feet, water flow through organism, and feeding
Term
type of skeleton of echinoderms?
Definition
dermal exoskeleton (plates and spines)
Term
pincerlike appendages that snap at anything that lands on them (echinoderms)
Definition
pedicellariae
Term
echinoderms' skin gills are called? (for gas exchange)
Definition
dermal branchiiae
Term
definite head? (echinoderms)
Definition
no
Term
Class Crinoidea
Definition

-sea lilies & feather stars

-aboral atachment stalk of dermal ossicles

-5 branching arms w/ pinnules

-ciliated groove on oral survace w/ tube feet: collects food

-spines and madreporite

-no pedicellariae

 

Term
Class Asteroidea
Definition
sea stars (main example = Asterias (starfish))
Term
starfish arms sharply marked off from central disc?
Definition
no
Term
main feeding system of starfish?
Definition
ambulacral grooves open with tube feet on oral side of organism; tube feet often w/ suckers
Term
main structures of starfish (Class Asteroidea)
Definition
-aboral anus
-madreporite
-pedicellariae
-5 arms (rays)
-ampullae
-ciliated epidermis & spines
-eyespot at tip of each arm
-sensory tentacles
-madreporite plate
-pentagonal, pyloric, everted stomach
-pyloric duct & pyloric ceca
-cardiac stomach
-oral, aboral, and deep nerve systems
Term
ampullae
Definition
bulblike structure water flows through; part of water vascular system
Term
sensory tentacles (starfish)
Definition
elongate tube feet
Term
madreporite plate
Definition
allows water flow into water vascular system; provides means for locomotion
Term
bivium (starfish)
Definition
rays on each side of madreporite plate
Term
trivium (starfish)
Definition
other 3 rays (NOT the bivium rays)
Term
location of anus on starfish?
Definition
center of small disc
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oral nerve system (echinoderms)
Definition
consists of nerve ring around mouth and radial nerve through each arm
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epidermal nerve plexus (echinoderms)
Definition
network of nerve cell bodies that connects all 3 nerve systems
Term
Class Opiuroidea
Definition
brittle stars
Term
brittle stars body shape?
Definition
-arms sharply marked from central disc
-resemble vertical columns
Term
main structures of Class Ophiuroidea?
Definition
-vertebral ossicles
-series of plates
-triangular jaws
-oral shields (buccal shields)
-bursae
-tube feet (tentacles)
Term
bursae (brittle stars)
Definition
openings for gas exchange
Term
Class Ophiuroidea locomotion?
Definition
"walk" by twisting
Term
Class Echinoidea
Definition
sea urchins
Term
body structure of sea urchins?
Definition
-lack arms
-long, movable spines
-5 ambulacral regions w/ double rows of ambulacral plates
Term
main structures of sea urchins?
Definition
-tubercle & cog muscles (hold spines)
-Aristotle's lantern
-peristome (surrounding mouth)
-sphaeridia
-buccal podia (part of peristome)
-pedicellariae
-ciliated epidermis
-gills
-periproct
Term
Aristotle's lantern (sea urchins)
Definition
feeding structure made of teeth
Term
Class Echinoidea locomotion?
Definition
uses spines and tube feet
Term
sphaeridia (sea urchins)
Definition
modified spines; believed to be organs of equilibrium
Term
periproct (sea urchins)
Definition
area that is free of spines
Term
Class Holothuroidea
Definition
sea cucumbers
Term
Class Holothuroidea body structure?
Definition
well...like a cucumber! (orally/aborally elongated)

-mouth & tentacles at one end, anus at the other
Term
main structures of sea cucumbers?
Definition
-respiratory trees
-podia
- coelomic cavity w/ pharynx, stomach,intestine, & cloaca
-retractile muscles/muscle bands
-ring, stone, lateral, and radial(5)canals
-polian vesicles
-ampullae
Term
respiratory trees (sea cucumbers)
Definition
internal respiratory organs that run longitudinally and are attached to cloaca
Term
polian vesicles
Definition
expansion chambers for maintaining pressure; part of ring canal
Term
what defines a chordate?
Definition
-notochord
-pharyngeal gill slits
-dorsal tubular nerve cord
-endostyle/thyroid gland
-postanal tail
Term
Protochordates
Definition
demonstrate each of the chordate characteristics at some point in their life cycle
Term
Subphylum Urochordata
Definition
(aka: Tunicata/Tunicates) only larval forms have all chordate characteristics; adults sessile; body enclosed in "tunic"
Term
Subphylum Cephalochordata
Definition
lancelet; notochord and nerve cord persist throughout life
Term
main structures of tunicates?
Definition
-siphon (incurrent and excurrent)
-tunic/test(outer covering)
-tentacles around mouth and pharynx
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main structures of Cephalochordates?
Definition
-beginnings of ventral heart
-metamerica arrangement of muscles and nerves
-dorsal and ventral fins
-myotomes
-wheel organ w/ cilia
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