WF Packers Animal Kingdom 7th Grade Website
Platyhelminthes
Cnidera
Porifera
- Boring Sponge
- Cliona
- Invertebrae
- Symmetry: Asymmetric
- facts include
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name from boring holes
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pest species
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asexually and sexually producing
- Jellyfish
- Aquatic environment
- no head or skeleton
- food and waste passed through same hole
- larvae attached to bottom of animal
- radial symmetry
- Bedford's flatworm
- no butt
- parasite
- 3 layers
- bilateral symmetry
Arthropods
Mollusks
Echinoderms
- Scorpion
- typhlocatus mitchelli
- everywhere except antarctica
- bites in US aren't harmless
- 430 million years old
- exoskeleton
- bilateral symmetry
-Giant Clam
- tridasa figes
- water environment
- longest mollusk
- sits at all times
- weighs 300+ pounds
- bilateral symmetry
Red Sea Urchin
- stronglyocentratus franciscanus
- water environment
- biggest sea urchin
- shallow water
- doesn't have organs
- radial symmetry
Annelids
Nematoda
- Common Earthworm
- Lumbricina
- anywhere besides Antarctica
- reddish grey
- lives until 6 years
- only less than 10 cm long
- bilateral symmetry
- Roundworm
- toxocna caus
- most environments
"pineapple attackers in Spongebob"
- parasite
- found in mammals
- causes rashes
- bilateral symmetry