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Has Completed the Requirements for Marine Invertebrates Honor On ____________________________________________________ Name (First and Last) This resource concept was originally developed by the has completed the College View "Trailblazers" requirements for Marine Invertebrates Honor on Instructor: Help us improve this resource by sending your feed back to: _______________________ Lonny Nelson (Date) [email protected] 402-802-8131 _________________________________________________ (Instructor Signature) 1. Find & check off at least one animal from each category (A-T): 2. Describe the following processes: A. Tunicate (Sea Squirt) 2a. Describe the swimming action of a sea jelly ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ 2b. Describe the method of an anemone capturing food ___________________________________________________ Sea Tulips Vase Tunicate ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ 2c. Describe the running of a crab ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ Orange Sheath Tunicate Colonial Tunicate 2d. Describe how a starfish digests a clam or oyster when it Tunicate, also known as Urochordata, has such a small mouth opening? tunicata (and by the common names of ___________________________________________________ urochordates, sea squirts, and sea pork) is the subphylum of a group of underwater saclike filter feeders with ___________________________________________________ incurrent and excurrent siphons, that are members of the phylum Chordata. ___________________________________________________ Most tunicates feed by filtering sea water through pharyngeal slits, but some are sub-marine predators such as 3., 4., & 5. Find a quiet area where your honor class can talk Salpidae (Salp) the Megalodicopia hians. together and listen to your instructor. S. Hermit Crab B. Brittle Star or Serpent Star Clibanarius tricolor Coenobita clypeatus Green brittle star reticulated brittle star (Blue-legged Hermit Crab) (Caribbean hermit crab) (Ophiarachna sp.) (Ophionereis reticulata) Most species of hermit crabs Brittle stars are echinoderms, have long soft abdomens which closely related to starfish. They are protected from predators by crawl across the sea-floor using the adaptation of carrying around their flexible arms as "legs" for a salvaged empty seashell, into locomotion. The Brittle star which the whole crab's body can generally have five long slender, retract. Most Giant red brittlestar whip-like arms which may reach frequently hermit crabs utilize the up to 60 centimeters (2 feet) in Coenobita compressus Ophioderma sp. (Ecuadorian hermit crab) shells of sea snails, marine length on the largest gastropod mollusks. The tip of the specimens.There are some 1,500 species of brittle stars living hermit crab's abdomen is adapted to clasp strongly onto the today, and they are largely found in deep waters more than 500 columella of the snail shell. As the hermit crab grows in size it metres (1,650 feet) down. has to find a larger shell and abandon the previous one.Hermit crabs live in the wild in colonies of 100 or more, and do not thrive in smaller numbers C. Sea Urchin Q. Sea Cucumber Strongylocentrotus Paracentrotus lividus Trachythyone elongate Three-Rowed Sea Cucumber purpuratus Sea Urchins are small, spiny sea creatures of the class Echinoidea The sea cucumber found in oceans all over the world. (The name urchin is an old is an echinoderm of name for the round spiny hedgehogs sea urchins resemble.) Their the class shell, which is also called the "test", is globular in shape and Holothuroidea, with covered with spines. The size of an adult test is typically from 3 to Thymiosycia hilla an elongated body 10 cm. Typical sea urchins have spines that are 1 to 3 cm in length, and leathery skin, which is found on the sea floor worldwide. It 1 to 2 mm thick, and not terribly sharp. Common colors include is so named because of its cucumber-like shape. Like all black and dull shades of green, olive, brown, purple, and red. echinoderms, sea cucumbers have an endoskeleton just below D. Limpet (Snail) the skin, but this can actually be absent in some species The name Limpet is used for many kinds of mostly saltwater but also freshwater snails, specifically those R. Tube Worm that have a simple shell which is The name tube worm may refer to more or less broadly conical in any of a number of unrelated shape, and which is either not tube-dwelling worm-like coiled, or appears not to be coiled, invertebrates. These include in the Patella vulgate adult snail. chiefly various polychaetes, (Common Limpet) Thus the word "limpet" is an specifically the family Siboglinidae inexact term, which is fairly often (beard worms), Serpulidae, and used as part of the common name of a wide variety of different Giant tube worm related families of the order marine and freshwater gastropod species, some of which have gills Canalipalpata. Other groups also called tube worms include and some of which have a lung. The name is given on the basis of a members of the phylum Phoronida (horseshoe worms). limpet-like or "patelliform" shell, but the several groups of snails which have such a shell are not at all closely related to one another. O. Bryozoa colony (Moss animal) E. Sea Star Reteporella grimaldii Schizobrachiella sanguinea Red-knobbed Starfish Sunflower Starfish Costazia costazi Starfish belong to the class Bryozoans are tiny colonial animals Asteroidea. They typically have five that generally build stony skeletons or more "arms" which radiate from of calcium carbonate, superficially an indistinct disk (pentaradial similar to coral. They are also known symmetry). Starfish do not rely on a as moss animals (which is the literal jointed, movable skeleton for Greek translation) or sea mats. They support and locomotion (although generally prefer warm, tropical they are protected by their skeleton), but instead possess a hydraulic waters but are known to occur worldwide. There are about 5,000 water vascular system that aids in locomotion. The water vascular living species, with several times that number of fossil forms known. system has many projections called tube feet on the bottom side of the starfish's arms which function in locomotion and aid with feeding. P. Barnacle F. Mussel or Clamworm Poli's Stellate Barnacle White Acorn Barnacle) A barnacle is a type of arthropod Common Clam Worm Ragworm) belonging to infraclass Cirripedia in the subphylum Crustacea, and is Clamworms are predominantly marine organisms that may hence distantly related to crabs occasionally swim upstream to rivers and even climb to land (for and lobsters. Around 1,220 example Lycastopsis catarractarum). They are commonly found in all barnacle species are currently water depths, foraging in seaweeds, hiding under rocks or burrowing known. The name "Cirripedia" is in sand or mud. Nereids are mainly omnivorous but many are active carnivores. (Rock Barnacle) Latin, meaning "curl-footed". G. Sea Jelly M. Amphipod (Sand Flea) Stinging Sea Nettle Crystal Jellyfish Hyperia macrocephala (Skeleton shrimp Jellyfish are marine invertebrates belonging to the class Scyphozoa of Amphipoda (amphipods) is an order of animals that includes over the phylum Cnidaria. They can be found in every ocean in the world 7,000 described species of small, shrimp-like crustaceans.Most and in some fresh waters. They are found drifting in the ocean either amphipods are marine; although a small number of species are limnic by themselves or in great schools. Each has a bell-shaped hollow body or terrestrial. Marine amphipods may be pelagic (living in the water with tentacles used for catching food. column) or benthic (living on the ocean bottom). Pelagic amphipods are eaten by seabirds, fish, and marine mammals. Terrestrial H. Oyster amphipods such as sand fleas can often be seen amongst sand and pebbles or on beaches. N. Sponge The common name oyster is used for a number of different groups of bivalve mollusks, most of which live in marine habitats or brackish water. The shell consists of two usually Cloud Sponge Fire Sponge highly calcified valves which surround a soft body. Gills filter The sponges or poriferans (from Latin porus "pore" and ferre "to plankton from the water, and strong adductor muscles are used bear") are animals of the phylum Porifera. Porifera translates to to hold the shell closed. Some of the groups known as oysters, "Pore-bearer". They are primitive, sessile, mostly marine, water also known as mullusks (true oysters), are highly prized as food, dwelling filter feeders that pump water through their bodies to filter both raw and cooked. Other groups also called oysters, such as out particles of food matter. Sponges represent the simplest of pearl oysters, are not widely eaten,. True (edible) oysters are animals. With no true tissues (parazoa), they lack muscles, nerves, incapable of making gem-quality pearls. and internal organs. There are over 5,000 modern species of sponges known, and they can be found attached to surfaces anywhere down to 29,000 feet. L. Sand Dollar I. Coral Keyhole sand dollar Pea Urchin Cavernous Star Coral Orange cup coral Sand dollars are in the Echinoid (Echinoderms) class of marine Corals are skeletal remains of animals. When they are living, they are covered with a suit of marine organisms from the class moveable spines that encompass the entire shell.
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