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Invertebrates Comparison Table Porifera Cnidaria Annelida Mollusca Arthropoda

This document provides a comparison table of key characteristics for five invertebrate groups: porifera, cnidaria, annelida, mollusca, and arthropoda. It outlines and compares their body plans, feeding methods, respiratory systems, circulatory systems, excretory systems, nervous systems, and reproductive strategies. The groups range from asymmetrical body plans in porifera to the true coeloms of arthropods and molluscs. Their feeding varies from filter feeding to parasitism. Respiration is primarily through diffusion, while circulation ranges from diffusion to closed circulatory systems with hearts.

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Invertebrates Comparison Table Porifera Cnidaria Annelida Mollusca Arthropoda

This document provides a comparison table of key characteristics for five invertebrate groups: porifera, cnidaria, annelida, mollusca, and arthropoda. It outlines and compares their body plans, feeding methods, respiratory systems, circulatory systems, excretory systems, nervous systems, and reproductive strategies. The groups range from asymmetrical body plans in porifera to the true coeloms of arthropods and molluscs. Their feeding varies from filter feeding to parasitism. Respiration is primarily through diffusion, while circulation ranges from diffusion to closed circulatory systems with hearts.

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Invertebrates Comparison Table

Body Plan

Feeding

Respiration

Porifera

Cnidaria

Annelida

-asymmetrical
- central cavity

- radial
symmetry
- gastrovascular
cavity

- bilateral
symmetry
- pseudocoelom

- bilateral
symmetry
- true coelom

- bilateral symmetry

-filter feeders
- intracellular

- digest in

- full digestive
system
- filter feeders
- extracellular

- herbivores,
carnivores, filter
feeders,
detritivores, or
parasites
- digestive
system (siphon)
- extracellular

- herbivores, carnivores,

- diffusion

- diffusion

- diffusion

- diffusion

- diffusion (have tracheal

gastrovascular
cavity
- extracellular
- paralyze prey
with cnidocytes

Mollusca

Arthropoda
- true coelom

blood suckers, filter


feeders, detritivores,
parasites, or omnivores
- extracellular
- mouthparts (ex. jaws)

tubes, spiracles, book


lungs, and gills for aquatic
arthropods)

Circulation

Excretion

Response

Reproduction

- diffusion

- diffusion

- diffusion

- diffusion

- no nervous
system
- protect
themselves by
producing
toxins

- nerve net

- can
reproduce
either sexually

- closed
circulatory
system
- blood vessels
- aortic arch

- closed or open

- nephridia

- nephridia
(excrete
ammonia in the
blood to filter)

- open circulatory system

circulatory
system
- blood vessels
- heart

- Terrestrial - Malpighian
tubules to extract waste
from blood and transfer to
feces
- Aquatic - diffusion

- simple nervous - nervous system


system with
- cephalization
several ganglia
- centralization
- nerves to
transmit
sensory/ control
information
- sense organs
- cephalization
- centralization

- well-developed nervous

- sexually and

- sexually

- sexually

asexually
- external

- hermaphroditic - varies (some


- external
hermaphroditic,

- sexually

system (nerve cord and


ganglia to control
movement)
- centralization
- cephalization (brain)

- Terrestrial - internal
fertilization

or asexually
- internal
fertilization

fertilization
- contain
specialized
reproductive
organs called
gonads

fertilization
- specialized
reproductive
organs: seminal
receptors
(female) and
seminal vesicles
(male)

external or
internal
fertilization, etc.)

- Aquatic - internal or
external fertilization

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