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Phylum Chordata

Animal Kingdom Data

Azure Vase Sponge
Jellyfish

Scientific Name: Callyspongia Plicefera

HABITAT

-lives in aquatic environments, mostly marine

-all live in water and most speices live in ocean environments

FACTS

-have no tissues, organs, or organ systems

-cells are specialized for capturing food, digestion, and reproduction; others provide support inside the sponge layers

-have bodies that are full of pores and channels that allow water to circulate through them

  • Asmmetry

  • Invertebrate

  • Phyla Porifera

 

Roundworm
Octopi

Scientific Name: Medusozoa

HABITAT

- most species live in the ocean; all live in water

FACTS

-simple tissues, including muscles, nerves, and digestive tissue allow cnidarians to survive by moving, reactin to stimuli and digesting food

-have a single body opening surrounded by tentacles

-have specialized cells called nematocyts that are used for defense and capturing food

  • Radial Symmetry

  • Invertebrate

  • Phyla Cnidarians

 

Scientific Name: Nematoida

HABITAT

-live in moist environments

-some species are parasites that live in animal's digestive system

FACTS

-bodies are round and covered with a stiff outer covering called a cuticle

-digestive systems have two openings: a mouth and an anus

-free-living roundworms eat material, such as fecal matter and dead organisms

  • Bilateral Symmetry

  • Invertebrate

  • Phyla Nematoda

Scientific Name: Octopoda

HABITAT

-must remain wet

-must live in wet or moist environments

FACTS

-their bodies are soft; some species have hard shells to protect their bodies

-have digestive systems with two openings

-a body cavity contains the heart,the stomach, and other organs; mollusk circulatory systems contain blood/no blood vessels; nervous system includes eyes and other sensory organs

  • Bilateral Symmetry

  • Invertebrate

  • Phyla Mollusks

Flatworm

Scientific Name: Platyhelminthes

HABITAT

-flat worms live in moist environments

-most are parasites that live in or on the bodies of other organisms and rely on them for food.

FACTS

-have soft and flattened bodies that are usually only a couple cells thick

-digestive system only has one opening: a mouth

-have nerve, mussles, digestive tissue, and a simple brain

  • Bilateral Symmetry

  • Invertebrate

  • Phyla Platyhelminthes

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Crab

Scientific Name: Brachyura

HABITAT

-live in almost every environmnet on Earth

FACTS

-more than 1 million arthropods

-the body parts are segmented and specialized for different functions

-arthropods have several pairs of jointed appendages

  • Bilateral Symmetry

  • Invertebrate

  • Phyla Arthropods

Earthworm
Sea Star

Scientific Name: Lumbricina

HABITAT

-lives in water or moist environments like soil

FACTS

-their bodies consists of repeating segments covered with a thin cuticle

-digestive system has two openings

-has circulatory system that are made up of blood vessels, that carry blood throughout the body

​-soft bodies

  • Bilateral Symmetry

  • Invertebrate

  • Phyla Annelids

 

Scientific Name: Asteroidea

HABITAT

-live only in oceans

-some can survive for a short period of time out of the water during low tides

FACTS

-have hard plates embedded in their skin that support the body

-thousands of small, muscular, fluid-filled tubes, called tube feet, allow them to move and feed

-have complete digestive systems, including a mouth and an anus

  • Radial Symmetry

  • Invertebrate

  • Phlya Echinoderms

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