Invertebrate Comparative Anatomy

Periphera

Cnidaria

Annelida

Mollusca

Arthropoda

Body Plan

Asymmetrical

Radial
Symmetry
gastrovascular cavity

Bilateral
Symmetry
Coelom

Bilateral
Symmetry

Bilateral
Symmetry

Feeding

Filter feeders, Filter feed,

digest
extracellularly
intracellularly. In
gastrovascular cavity
paralyze prey
with
cnidocytes

Filter feeders
to predators,
they use the
pharynx, and
pharynx is
covered in
mucus, full
digestive
system

Herbivores,
Carnivore,
Filter Feeder,
Detritivores,
and Parasites
Snails/ Slugs
use a long
tongue called
radula to
obtain food

Blood
suckers,
Filter feeders,
Parasites,
Detritivores
Pincers/
Mandibles

Others use
siphon
feather like
things to suck
water in and
trap plankton
Respiration

Diffuse into
the water

diffusion
through body

Diffusion

GIlls
Land
mollusks
through O2
diffuse
through
mantle

Through the
sides of the
body tubes
called
spiracles/
book lungs

Circulation

Through the
motion of the
ocean

Diffusion

Closed
circulatory
system
Blood vessels
and aortic
arch

Either open
or closed
Open has a
simple heart
and travels
throughout
sinuses
Closed is
much faster

Open
circulatory
system

Excretion

Diffuse out
through body

Diffusion
through the
body walls

Two kinds,
digestive
waste

release
through
nitrogen

they use
malpighian
tubes that

through the
anus and
cellular waste
by the
nephridia

containing
waste in a
form of
ammonia

extract waste
from the
bloodstream

Response

Produce
Toxins for
protection
against other
organisms

Nerve net
that reacts to
foreign
substances
that touch it

Consists of
brain and
several nerve
cords,
centralization
and
cephalization

simple
nervous
system, able
to respond to
environment
nerve cords,
ganglia,
chemical
receptors

brain like a
on and off
circuit system
sophisticated
sense

Reproduction

Asexually/
Sexually
external
fertilization

Asexually/
Sexually
external
fertilization
gonads

Sexually, but
some are
hermaphrodit
es fertilize
their own
eggs

sexually,
externally
and internally

internal
reproduction
aquatic
internal/exter
nal