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ANIMAL KINGDOM Invertebarates

This document summarizes the key characteristics of different animal phyla including invertebrates like sponges, cnidarians, flatworms, roundworms, and annelids. It describes their defining features such as presence or lack of a backbone, digestive and circulatory systems, and whether they are free-living or parasitic. Examples are provided of common organisms from each phylum like sponges, corals, flukes, tapeworms, roundworms, earthworms, and polychaetes.

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ANIMAL KINGDOM Invertebarates

This document summarizes the key characteristics of different animal phyla including invertebrates like sponges, cnidarians, flatworms, roundworms, and annelids. It describes their defining features such as presence or lack of a backbone, digestive and circulatory systems, and whether they are free-living or parasitic. Examples are provided of common organisms from each phylum like sponges, corals, flukes, tapeworms, roundworms, earthworms, and polychaetes.

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Ms. Joana Marie L.

Gamboa, LPT
Teacher 1
Two major groups
• INVERTEBRATES
• They lack backbone

• VERTEBRATES
• They have backbone
PHYLUM
PORIFERA

1) SPONGES
• Simplest animals belong to Phylum
Porifera
• They live in shallow and deep
oceans
• Young sponges (motile)
• Adults (attached to solid materials)
• The body of a hard sponge is
supported by a “skeleton” called
spicules
2) PHYLUM CNIDIRIA
• They are the animals whose
tentacles contain stinging cells
called nematocysts
• Nematocysts – poison-filled
structures are used for defense
and to capture their prey or food
• A coral reef is where fishes and
other marine organisms breed
3)
Phylum Platyhelminthes
• In Greek platys means
flat, helmins means worm
• They are flat and ribbon-
like organisms
• Found in freshwater, in
wet places and marine
waters
• They live in moist
surfaces, under
rocks in ponds,
rivers and even
aquariums
FLUKES
•They are
parasites that live
in other animals
including humans
TAPEWORM
• They are also parasitic
flatworms like flukes
without a digestive system
• Humans can be infected
with tapeworms if they eat
uncooked fish, beef or
pork
Phylum
nematoda

4) Roundworms
• They have long, cylindrical and
slender bodies
• Some roundworms are free-living
while others are parasites of animals
and plants
• Parasitic roundworms can be found
in moist tissues of plants and
animals
• Humans can be infected with
parasitic roundworms such as :
HOOKWORMS
PINWORMS
ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES
5)
• the third group of worm
among animal phyla
belongs to Phylum
Annelida.
• Also known as annelids,
• These animals are
characterized by a segmented
or repeated body parts
• This makes them move easily
and with flexibility
• They are found crawling in
moist soil or swimming in sea
and freshwater
• have nervous, circulatory,
digestive and excretory
systems.
• Leeches- are blood sucking
annelids.
• they secrete an anti clotting
chemical that has been used
in medicine.
EARTHWORM
POLYCHAETES

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