Invertebrates

ANIMALS

Are multicellular eukaryotes with specialized cells. Their nutrition is heterotrophic (herbivores, carnivores or omnivores), have high sensitivity and capacity to move. Vertebrates: with backbones

Invertebrates: without backbones

Porifera Coelenterates Worms Mollusk Arthrpods Echinoderms
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Natural sponges

PORIFERA

Sack-shaped body, pierced: pores. channels. External Interior cavity:

Pores connected by cavity: fibrillation. osculation.

Filter animals, fixed to the substrate. Lack of organs and systems.

Simple organization.
Great power of regeneration.

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Anemones - Corals Jellyfisk

COELENTERATES

Soft body and gastrovascular cavity.

tentacles.

Aperture:

Tentacles with hives sustances: paralyzer and capture prey.

Radial symmetry.

Two forms: polyps (fixed to the substrate) and jellyfish (free life).

Carnivores. Marine least hydra.

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WORMS
Platyhelminthes: Tapeworm Nematodes: Pinworm Annelids: Earthworm

Soft body. Without skeleton. Bilateral symmetry.

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Flatworms
Soft body, thin, segmented and without organs of locomotion.

Water or moist environments = Planarian. Parasites = Tapeworm.

It has no digestive or respiratory system. Hermaphrodites: can self-fertilization.

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Nematode worms

Whipworm and hookworm

Body: cylindrical, soft, no rings, pointed ends. Free life. Aquatic and terrestrial. Parasites = disease in animals and plants. Not have respiratory organs.

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Annelid worms

Leech and earthworm.

Soft-body, cylindrical, divided in repeated rings = metamerism.

Aquatic breathe through gills (parasites). Terrestrial breathe through the skin. Hermaphrodite and other separate sexes. Regenerate from a fragment.
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Gastropods: Snail and slug Bivalve: Mussel - oyster Cephalopods: Squid

MOLLUSKS

Aquatic animals : marine and freshwater. Also terrestrial environment: snail. Soft body (head, visceral mass, foot). Bilateral symmetry. Many with shells Breathe through gills (aquatic) - lungs (terrestrial)

Hermaphrodite: External and internal fertilization.

Most are oviparous. Metamorphose. Varied diet.

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Gastropod MOLLUSKS

Snail and leech Terrestrial (lungs); marine (gills).

Shell without spiral wound valves.

Head with tentacles. Muscular foot. Mouth with radula. Feeding: herbivore y carnivore.
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Bivalve MOLLUSKS

Mussel, oyster. Aquatic.

Shell with two valves.

Head without a difference. Small foot. Breathe through gills. Feeding by filtering the water.
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Cephalopod MOLLUSKS

Octopus, Squid. Marines. Head well developed. Eyes very large. Tentacles surrounding the mouth. Most without shell.

Breathe through gills.

Carnivores: Tentacles with suckers to hold prey.

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ARTHROPODS

Insects: Beetle

Arachnids: Scorpion
Shelfish: Crab Myriapoda: Milipedes
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ARTHROPODS

Largest group: more than 1 million species. Live in all media. High level of adaptation to the media.

Chitin exoskeleton and jointed legs.

Segmented body (head, thorax and abdomen). Arachnids and crustaceans (cephalothorax and abdomen). Varied diet. Separate sexes. Oviparous. Some suffer metamorphosis. PiensoyJuego

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ARTHROPODS: Insects

The insects are the most numerous group of arthropods. All environments. Head:

A pair of compound eyes. Two or three ocelli. A pair of antennas (olfactive and tactile function).

Mouth = variable. Thorax = Three pairs of jointed legs and one or two pairs of wings. Breathing: tracheae. Separate sexes. Internal fertilization: oviparous. Metamorphosis.
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ARTHROPODS : Arachnids

Terrestrial (almost all). Body:

Carapace Two chelicerae. Two pedipalps. Four pairs of legs. Abdomen

Breathing: Trachea.

Carnivores (mostly). Nails, claws and venom glands. Separate sexes. Oviparous or ovoviviparous.
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Marines, some freshwater and terrestrial few. Body:

ARTHROPODS : Crustaceans

Head Two pairs of antennae. Five pairs of legs. Thorax Segmented abdomen.

Breathing = gills. Varied diet. Separate sexes. Metamorphosis, mostly.

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ARTHROPODS : Myriapods

Terrestrial (dark and damp places). Body: Head A pair of antennas. Simple eyes. Mouth chewing jaws. Trunk Variable number equal segments. Segments = a pair of legs.
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ECHINODERMS

Sea urchins - Starfish Sea cucumber Radial symmetry. Cylindrical body (sea cucumber: star). Internal skeleton. Head not distinc. Mouth lower body. Ambulacral apparatus. Breathing through the skin. Carnivores (crustaceans and mollusks). Separate sexes. Hermaphroditic (some). External fertilization. Great power of regeneration.
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Cinema: Insectopia Scientific: Lamarck Collection: The Lepidoteca ONG: Andacentral - Spain

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