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Includes flatworms found in marine habitats, freshwater habitats, and damp terrestrial habitats?
Phylum platyheliminthes
True or false platyheliminthes (flatworms) parasites are parasites such as fluke and tapeworms?
True
What are the body structure of flatworms?
Dorsoventrally flattened body (flat from top to bottom)
Flatworms lack a body cavity between their gut and outer body wall called?
Acoelomates
Platyhelminthes (Flatworms ) have a cavity that spread throughout the body to help with digestion?
Gastrovascular cavity
Are found in Freshwater, marine habitats, and damp soil habitats?
Rotifers
How big are rotifers?
They are tiny, smaller than many protists
Despite their small size , they are multicellular (made of many cells) and have specialized organ systems
How do Rotifers get there food?
They use cilia (tiny hair-like structures) to draw water and food particles into their mouth.
The food in Rotifers are then ground up by jaws called?
Trophi
They are sessile colonial animals (stay in one place and live in groups) and they look like clumps of moss?
Ectoprocts (bryozoans)
In Ectoprocts (Bryozoans) are crown of ciliated tentacles around their mouth for feeding?
Lophophore
In Ectoprocts (Bryozoans) are a digestive tract that is shaped like the letter “U”?
U-shaped digestive system
True of false In Ectoprocts (Bryozoans) do have a clear head?
Flase they have no distinct head
In Ectoprocts (Bryozoans) body cavity is called a?
Coelom
In Ectoprocts (Bryozoans) have a hard —- that covers the colony?
Exoskeleton
In Ectoprocts (Bryozoans) extend through tiny —- in the exoskeleton?
Pore
What do Brachiopods look like?
They resemble clams and other mollusks with hinged shells
What is another name for brachiopods?
Lamp shells
What is the shell structure for Brachiopods (Lamp Shells)?
The two halves of the shell are dorsal (top) and ventral (bottom), not lateral (side ) like clams
What do Brachiopods (Lamp Shells) live?
They are marine animals (live in the ocean)
Most attach to the seafloor by a stalk
