aaaComparing Features of Invertebrates

Fill in Table 1-3 as you analyze the following Invertebrates. Fill in each of the columns as you go along and study each group. I have filled out the Porifera
column for you.
Table 1-3. Comparison of animal phyla by features
Phylum name
Feature
Porifera Cnidarian Platyhelminth Annelida Mollusca Arthropoda Echinoderma Chordata
ta

Body Asymmetric Radical Bilateral Symmetry Bilateral Bilateral Bilateral Radial Bilateral
Symmetry body Symmetry Symmetry Symmetry Symmetry Symmetry symmetry

Segmentation Non segmented None None They are Primitively Segmented None Segmented
segmented segmented

Type of Hydrostatic Hydrostatic None Hydrostatic exoskeleton Exoskeleton Endoskeleton Endoskelet

skeleton on

Digestive no Digestive Incomplete Complete Complete Complete Complete Simple Complete

Tract Type Tract Extracellular Digestive system Digestive Digestive Digestive complete digestive
and System system system digestive system
intracellular system
digestion

Nervous Non organized Nerve Net, Nerve Net, Dorsal brain Cerebral Dorsal brain Nerve Ring Dorsal
System Type Ganglia Organized with several ganglia nerve
commissures

Respiration None Body Surface Through pores on Specialized Ctenidia Gills and Simple Gills
Method their body surface gills (gills) tracheae diffusion or
gills

Unique Pores Nematocysts They are Annelids are Mantle and Highly Exclusively A
Features triboplastic coelomate and radula developed marine notochord
triploblastic. organs animals

Economic Tools, Craft Serve as a Keep soil fertile Serves as Food, non Keep Main
Importance Items, Gifts breeding food and bait Decoration, leguminous seaweed in source of
ground for jewelry, and vegetable check and food for
commercially in science ecosystems serve a place humans
important fish in the food
chain

Environmenta Solitary Benthic and Depths of the some parasitic Aquatic and Terrestrial Sea floor and Freshwater
l Niche Pelagic ocean floor or others terrestrial ecosystem coral reefs and
among coral filter-feed terrestrial