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Invertebrate Zoology Final
Apomorphies
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04/09/2013

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BryozoaP

AKA Moss Animals

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Definition
  • introvert - stalk-like neck that supports the lophophore
    • lophophore - feeding structure with tentacles and cilia
  • funicular system - can't live alone; are connected to other individuals 
  • colonial - physiologically integrated
  • multicilated cells
  • coelomopores - a little pore in the body where the gametes are expelled
    • the end of the reproductive system
    • possibly evolved from the metanephridial system (which is non-existent in bryozoans; was possibly taken out by reproductive system
Term

 

ChaetognathaP

AKA Arrow worms

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Definition
  • grasping spines made of chitin that are venomous and comes out of anterior end
    • protected by a hood-like structure derived from the epidermis
  • ciliary fences - ctene/comb rows
  • double-walled lateral fins that are not homologous to fins of fishes 
    • derived from epidermis
    • used for locomotion
  • stratified epidermis
    • only invertebrate to have a doubling of the epidermis on the trunk
Term

 

AnnelidaP

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Definition
  • four buncles of simple chaetae per segment
  • chaetae made of β-chitin
  • chaetoblast responsible for making chaetae
Term

 

PolychaetaC

AKA Bristleworms

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Definition
  • parapodia - fleshy extensions of the body generally used for locomotion but some are specialized for different functions
  • pedal ganglia
  • nuchal organs - chemoreceptors
    • highly developed in predator species, used to sense prey
  • pair of pygidial cirri
    • fattened up sensory organ
Term

 

 

 

ClitellataC

 

Definition
  • clitellum
Term

 

 

 OligochaetasC

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Definition
  • muscular bulb in the muscular wall of the pharynx
Term

 

 

HirudinomorphasC

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Definition
  • posterior sucker
  • dorsal anus anterior to sucker
  • superficial annulations
  • unpaired midventral gonopore
  • ectoparasitic
Term

 

EchiuraC

AKA Spoon worms

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Definition
  • prostomium 
  • pair of anterior and ventral chaetae
  • 2 posterior rings of chaetae
  • prostomial and trunk coeloms
  • intestinal siphon
Term

 

 

SipunculaC

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Definition
  • eversible introvert
    • introvert retractor muscles
  • tentacles
    • tentacular coelom 
  • j-shaped digestive tract
  • intestinal cilary groove
  • cuticle with scattered hooks
  • hemerythrin in cells 
Term

 

PhronidaP

AKA Horseshoe Worms

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Definition
  • corpuscular hemoglobin in hemal system
    • if there is hemoglobin in the blood, then it is usually extracellular 
      • usually quite big (not good), small hemoglobin can bind more oxygen
      • cellular hemoglobin reduces osmotic pressure 
      • super collectors of oxygen
  • actinotroch larva
  • loss of chaetae
    • every larval stage has an increase of tentacles
    • body size is directly correlated to the number of tentacles they have
Term

 

BrachiopodsP

AKA Lampshells

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Definition
  • bivalve shell and mantle
  • brachia
  • heart is dorsal 
  • digestive ceca
    • extension that passes things around the body
Term

 

NemerteaP

AKA Ribbon Worms

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Definition
  • rhynchocoel and proboscis
    • rhynchocoel is where the proboscis lies
  • loss of chaetae
    • apomorphy of the general clase
    • apomorphy does not have to be maintained throughout the clade
Term

 

 

 

MolluscaP

 

Definition
  • dorsal mantle with secreted chitin cuticle and calcareous spicules
  • radula, foot and paired pedal retractor muscles
  • bipectinate gills (ancestral form) but unipectinate gills also present
    • structure that looks like a feather
      • central structure with two lobes coming off of it
  • tetraneural nervous system consists of four axes of the nervous system
    • separate ganglia for separate sections, pleural = lungs, pedal = foot, parietal = digestive system, visceral = also digestive
  • mantle can result in a shell
Term

 

AplacophoraC

Shell-less

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Definition
  • cylindrical vermiform body
  • foot reduced
  • mantle with cuticle and spicules (no shell)
  • dorsoterminal sense organs
  • gonads open into pericardial coelom instead of their own gonad coelom
Term

 

 

Conchifera?

 

Definition
  • one piece shell with periostracum and calcareous layers
  • mantle margins with 3 folds
  • crystalline style
  • mantle spicules absent
  • 8 pairs of dorsoventral pedal retractor muscles
Term

 

 

 

Ganglioneura?

 

Definition
  • neuron cell bodies concentrated in paired ganglia 
  • single pair of foot retractor muscles 
Term

 

 

 

Rhacopoda?

Definition
  • posterior mantle cavity
  • extensible head (head can move in and out) lol
  • tail, conical shell
Term

 

 

GastropodaC

Snails

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Definition
  • torsion
    • twisting
  • usually coiled, asymmetrical 
  • anterior mantle cavity
  • streptoneurous nervous system
  • operculum
    • plate like structure attached to the bottom of the foot of the cell that functions as a closing door when snail retreats into shell
    • protection from predators, dessication etc.
  • left gonad lost
Term

 

 

CephalopodaC

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Definition
  • pelagic
  • chambered shell
  • hydrostatic organ
  • beaks and tentacles
  • extreme cephalization
  • camera-style eyes
  • muscular mantle
  • crystalline style lost
  • macrolecithal eggs
Term

 

 

Ancryopoda?

 

Definition
  • mantle, gills, mantle cavity developed laterally
  • valves joined dorsally and free ventrally
  • foot adapted for digging
Term

 

 

BivalviaC

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Definition
  • bivalve shell with hinge
  • adductor muscles
  • radula lost
Term

 

 

EcdysozoaSP

Definition
  • moulted exoskeleton
  • setae
  • alpha-chitin
Term

 

 

Cycloneuralia?

Definition
  • terminal mouth
  • ringlike circumpharyngeal brain
  • sucking pharynx
Term

 

 

NematodaP

AKA Roundworms

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Definition
  • three circumoral rings
  • pair of amphids
  • epitheliomuscular pharynx
Term

 

 

Paranthropoda?

 

Definition
  • segmentation 
Term

 

 

 

TardigradaP

AKA Water bears

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Definition
  • 4 pairs pf short uniramous legs
  • sucking pharynx
  • eutele
  • body is head + 4 trunk segments
  • anterior-most appendages vestigial 
  • stylet
Term

 

 

OnychophoraP

AKA Velvet Worms

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Definition
  • lobopods with articulations
  • unbranched tracheae
  • multiple nerve commissures/segments
    • commissure = interaction between tissue, nerves innervate
  • oral papillae with slime glands
    • papillae = outpocketing of tissue
      • nipple like structure that has some sort of function, in our case, secretes slime 
  • body wall muscles in continuous sheets 
Term

 

 

ArthropodaP

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Definition
  • articulated exoskeleton with plates
  • jointed appendages 
  • individuals muscles
  • pair of lateral compound eyes
  • 4 pairs of median ocelli 
  • 6 pairs of saccate nephridia 
    • saccate = sac-like
  • head with acron + 5 segments
    • acron = pre-segmental party (mostly a plate)
  • pair of pre-oral appendages + 3 other appendages
  • larvae with 3 pairs of appendages
Term

 

 

CrustaceasP

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Definition
  • two pairs of antennae
  • two pairs of maxillae
  • antennal and maxillary segments have saccate nephridia
  • tagmata are head and trunk
  • trunk appendages are biramous
  • all trunk segments have appendages 
  • suspension feeders use mixopods and a ventral food groove 
  • compound eye present
Term

 

 

HexapodasP

Definition
  • trunk divided into thorax and abdomen
  • thorax has three pairs of limbs
Term

 

 

MyriapodasP

Definition
  • median ocelli lost
  • compound eyes lack crystalline cones
  • ommatidia are few and loosely arranged
Term

 CheliceratasP

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Definition
  • second segment has chelicerae
  • body consists of cephalothorax and abdomen
  • cephalothorax consists of acron plus 7 segments
  • six paired appendages on cephalothorax
  • abdomen has 12 segments
  • first head segment appendages lost
Term

 

 

ArachnidaC

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Definition
  • terrestrial
  • second appendages are pedipalps
  • gas exchange via book lungs
  • compound eyes divided into five pairs of single eyes
  • internal fertilization
  • femur of walking legs is biarticulate
  • abdomen has twelve segments
Term

 

AraneaO

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Definition
  • abdominal silk glands, spinnerets, and silk
  • venom glands in chelicerae
  • sperm transfer in direct with pedipalp and sperm web
Term

 

 

DeuterostomiaSP

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Definition
  • enterocoely
  • blastopore becomes anus
  • suspension feeding pharynx with gill slits
  • lecithotrophic larva
Term

 

 

EchinodermataP

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Definition
  • pentamerous symmetry 
  • water vascular system
  • mutable connective tissue
    • can harden/soften ectoderm tissue
      • go rigid/flaccid
  • ossicles
Term

 

 

CrinoideaC

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Definition
  • body divided into crown and stem
  • arms with pinnules
  • ring canal bears many stone canals
  • heart, kidney absent
Term

 

 

AsteroideaC

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Definition
  • eyespot at each arm tip
  • paired pyloric cecum in each worm
  • gonads in arms
  • bipinnaria larva
Term

 

 

EchinoideaC

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Definition
  • test of fused ossicle
  • Aristotle's Lantern
  • periproct has 10 ossicles
  • skeletal pores for each foot
  • polian vesicles lost
Term

 

 

HolothuroideaC

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Definition
  • minute ossicles in thick dermis
  • body wall musculature in 5 longitudinal bands
  • microphagus, retractable buccal podia
Term

 

 

HemichordataP

AKA Acorn Worms

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Definition
  • dorsal and central longitudinal nerve cords
  • stomochord 
  • muscular locomotory secretory protostome
  • valved collar ducts
Term

 

 

ChordataP

 

Definition
  • dorsal hollow nerve cord with open anterior neuropore
  • notochord
  • pharynx with endostyle
  • ventral postoral heart
  • fins
  • cross-striated longitudinal muscles for swimming
Term

 

 

TunicatasP

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Definition
  • tunic
  • buccal tentacles
  • heartbeat reversal
  • neural gland
  • pyloric gland
  • hermaphroditic
  • tubular notochord with extracellular lumen
  • determinate development
Term

 

 

CephalochordatasP

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Definition
  • muscular notochord
  • myoglobin
  • staggered myomeres
  • asymmetric larva
Term

Protostomes

  • spiral clevage
  • blastopore becomes mouth
  • nerve cord of the CNS are ventral
  • Nemertea, Annelida, Arthropoda, Mollusca
Definition

Deuterostomes

  • radial cleavage
  • blastopore does not become the mouth (anus)
  • nerve cords on the CNS are not ventral
  • Echinodermata, Hemichordata, Chordata
Term

Segmentation

  • derived from the ectoderm
  • can be confined to only ectoderm
Definition

Metamerism

  • derived from the mesoderm
  • confined only to the ectoderm and mesoderm
Term

Metamerism Advantages

  • build large organism from a simple plan
  • effective servicing of major systems
  • enables flexible and/or complex movement
  • loss of parts not fatal
  • oppurtunities for specialization
Definition

Metamerism Disadvantages

  • every organ must be replicated, so new adaptations are either limited or necessitate the reduction in metamerism 
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