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Phylum Porifera
SpongesMetazoadrive water through cannalsLooks like a you shape where food coms in and out of the same place TERM 2
Phylum Cnidaria
DEFINITION 2 Radial symmertyUnique stiging or adhesive strcutorsJelly fish, sea anemmas TERM 3
Phylum Ctenophora
DEFINITION 3 Biradial symmetryHas a gutBright colors TERM 4
Platyhelminthes
DEFINITION 4 The flatworms, known in scientific literature as Platyhelminthes or Plathelminthes, helminth-, meaning worm) are a phylum of relatively simple bilaterian, unsegmented, soft-bodied invertebrate animals. TERM 5
Phylum Nemertea
DEFINITION 5 Unsegmentated wormClosed circulatory system
Phylum Rotifera
The rotifers make up a phylum of microscopic and near- microscopic pseudocoelomate animals. Looks like a cactus TERM 7
Phylum Gastrotricha
DEFINITION 7 Has spikes and are very smallGut completsnot well studiedmarine and freshwater envionments TERM 8
Phylum Nemata
DEFINITION 8 Unsegmented, worm like looks like a C TERM 9
Phylum Annelida
DEFINITION 9 The annelids, formally called Annelida (from Latin anellus "little ring"), are a large phylum of segmented worms, with over 22,000 modern species including ragworms, earthworms and leeches. TERM 10
Phylum Sipuncula
DEFINITION 10 Ailateral unsegmented worms, look a lot fatter than the other unsegmentate worms
Subphylum
Cheliceriformes
HOrseshoe crabs, spiders, scorptions TERM 17
Phylum Mollusca
DEFINITION 17 The molluscs or mollusks, compose a large phylum of invertebrate animals, Mollusca. Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. Squid octapus and much more TERM 18
Phylum
Phoronida
DEFINITION 18 Phoronids are a phylum of marine animals that filter-feed with a lophophore (a "crown" of tentacles), and build upright tubes of chitin to support and protect their soft bodies. TERM 19
Phylum Brachiopoda
DEFINITION 19 Brachiopods, phylum Brachiopoda, are marine animals that have hard "valves" on the upper and lower surfaces, unlike the left and right arrangement in bivalve molluscs. Looks like a clam TERM 20
Phylum
Echinodermata
DEFINITION 20 Echinoderms are a phylum of marine animals. The adults are recognized easily by their (usually five-point) radial symmetry, and include such well-known animals as starfish, sea urchins, sand dollars, and sea cucumbers.
Phylum Chaetognatha
Chaetognatha, meaning hair-jaws, and commonly known as arrow worms, are a phylum of predatory marine worms that are a major component of plankton worldwide. TERM 22
Phylum Hemichordata
DEFINITION 22 TYpe of worm TERM 23
Phylum Chordata
DEFINITION 23 Chordates, members of the phylum Chordata, are deuterostome animals possessing a notochord, a hollow dorsal nerve cord, pharyngeal slits, an endostyle, and a post- anal tail for at least some period of their life cycles. What we are under, fish, birds, etc
