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The Animal Kingdom. The most and least familiar to us. Most people can name many animals yet more and more are being discovered every day, especially from very deep parts of the ocean. Due to new technology, robots are able to retrieve data and species never seen before.
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The most and least familiar to us Most people can name many animals yet more and more are being discovered every day, especially from very deep parts of the ocean. Due to new technology, robots are able to retrieve data and species never seen before.
How Many Phyla? Almost all of the animals we commonly think of -- mammals, fish, and birds – belong to one subphylum within one of the 33 Phyla comprising the Animal Kingdom
Around 800,000 species have been identified in the Animal Kingdom – most of them in the Arthropod phylum
Invertebrate vs. Chordates Invertebrate: Do not have a spinal chord Chordates: Do have a spinal chord
Invertebrate Rule! Of the million or more animal species in the world, more than 98% are invertebrates.
Invertebrates:Most havea hard outer shell(exoskeleton) -insects and crustaceansVertebrates:havean internal skeleton made of bone, called an “endoskeleton”.-
Phylum Porifera: The Sponges The simplest invertebrate
Sponges are filter feeders, siphoning food particles out of the water.
Phylum Cnidarians: Stinging-Celled Animals coral polyps, hydra, jellyfish, sea anemone
Phylum Nematoda: The Roundworms hookworms, pinworms, canine heartworms
An infected animal passes massive numbers of hookworm eggs in the feces, up to 28,000 per day! These eggs hatch into larvae which feed on the bacteria in the fecal matter surrounding them
About 1.3 billion people are infected with hookworms, which are intestinal roundworms. The infection is most common in tropical areas where sanitation is poor. Hookworms thrive in warm, moist places. Humans can become infected by contact with contaminated soil. The worms penetrate the skin and migrate locally in the skin instead of migrating to the lungs. Hookworm in Foot
Canine Heartworm Mosquitoes carry the immature worm, the “filaria”, that lives in the dogs’ blood, and spread it from dog to dog. The adult worms live in the heart and they block the blood flow.
Canine Heartworm in a dog’s heart that died because the heart couldn’t pump blood to the lungs and body.
Phylum Annelida – segmented worms(includes leeches and a type of marine worms)
Soils may harbor 50 to 500 earthworms per square meter; they keep soils aerated, and their castings fertilize the soil.
Most earthworms and leeches are hermaphroditic with both male and female gonads.
Class Chondrichthyes – Cartilaginous Fish ‘(sharks, rays, chimeras)
Class Amphibia “Double Life” -Egg to larvae to adult - Lay eggs in water -frogs, newts, salamanders
Class Reptilia • Lay eggs on land • - Lungs, scaly skin, leathery egg • Lizards, snakes, turtles, alligatiors, crocodiles
Class Aves – birds • Feathers • Lay eggs (hard shelled) • Many migrate • - Warm blooded