Organisms(Invertebrates) Table

Porifera

Cnidaria

Annelida

Mollusca

Arthropoda

Body Plan

Asymmetrical

Radially
symmetrical

Divided into
segments separated
by septa, Bilateral
symmetrical, Celum

four parts:
foot, mantle,
shell, and
viscera mask.

Segmented body,
tough
exoskeleton,
jointed
appendages

Feeding

Intracellular, Filter
feeders

Extracellular,
within cells in the
gastrovascular
cavity, paralyzed
prey

Filter feeders or
predators. Use
pharynx to obtain
food, full digestion
system

Herbivore,
Carnivore,
Filter feeder,
detritivores, or
parasites.

Blood sucker, filter

feeders,
detritivores, and
parasites

Respiration

Diffusion from
movement of
water

Diffusion through
body walls

aquatic breath
through gills, land
breath through
moist skin

Gills, Oxygen
and carbon
dioxide
diffuses over
surface of
gills. Land
Molluscs
respire using
mantle cavity
through
diffusion.

Breathe through a
branch of tracheal
tubes. Enters and
leaves through
spiracles, some
have book lungs

Circulation

Oxygen in the
Diffusion through
water diffuses into body walls
cells

Closed circulatory
system, dorsal
vessel, and ventral
vessel. Ring vessels
connect the two
main vessels, aortic
arch

Circulatory
system is
either closed
or open.

OPen circulatory
system, welldeveloped heart

Excretion

Diffusion into the

water and carried
away

digestive waste
passes out the
anus, cellular waste
is eliminated by
nephridia

Cells of the
body release
nitrogen
containing
waste into the
blood.
Nephritis
removes
ammonia from
blood

Malpighian
tubules, diffusion
in aquatic
arthropods

Diffusion through
body walls

Response

No nervous
system. Produce
toxins making
them poisonous
to predators

Specialized
sensory cells,
nerve net

Well developed
nervous system
consisting of brains
and nerve cords.
Sensory tentacles,
chemical receptors,
statocytes, and two
or more pairs of
eyes.

Simple
systems for
two shell
mollusk, or
have a more
developed and
complex
system like
octopi

Well developed
nervous system,
brain, nerve cords
with several
ganglia

Reproduction

Sexual, or
Asexual; Internal
fertilization

Asexual through
budding, Sexual
external
fertilization

Sexual, fertilization
takes place in the
clitellum,
Hermaphrodite

Sexual
through
internal
external
fertilization
fortwo shelled
mollusk, for
tentacled
mollusk
fertilization
takes place in
the female.
Some are
hermaphrodite

Internal
fertilization,
Aquatic have
internal or external
fertilization.