BI/MS202 PROJECT 2

(Dichotomous key)

Name: Shyla Tosana Mani

Id: s11184888

Steps Diagnostic………………………………………………………………………… Specimen

(Class, Order)
1 a) the organism has legs……………………………………………………….. Go to 8
b) the organism does not have legs …......................................Go to 9

2 a) the organism has modified jaws(labium) at

Juvenile stage……………………………………………………………………. Damselfly, Fig 8
(Insecta, Odonata)
b) the organism has no modified jaws………………………………… Go to 10
3 a) the organism has 8 arm and 2 feeding tentacles……………… Metasepia pfefferi

Fig 4 (Cephalopoda, Sepiida)

b) the organism has 5 arms ………………………………………………….Go to 6

4 a) the organism has endoskeleton …………………………………………….Go to 10

b) the organism does not have exoskeleton ………………………Hermit crab, Fig 10

(Malacostraca, Decapoda)
5 a) the organism has two long hairy legs…………………………. Juvenile Water strider
Fig 3 (Insecta, Hemiptera)
b) the organism has two chelipeds……………………………………………. Go to 7

6 a) the invertebrate has a radially symmetry body……………………….Starfish, Fig7

( Asteroidea, Valvatida)
b) the organism is A-symmetrical at larval stage……………………………Go to 6
7 a) the invertebrate has 1 large and 1 smaller claw
In adult male …………………………………………..………………….. Fiddler crab, Fig 6

(Malacostraca, Decapoda)
b) both the claws are equally same size …………………………………………. Go to 4

8 a) the invertebrate has 16 legs………………………………….. Aquatic Caterpillar, Fig 5

(Insecta, Lepidoptera)

b) the invertebrate has 6 legs …………………………………………………………..Go to 5

9 a) the invertebrate has 10 short tentacles………………………………………… Go to 3

b) the invertebrate has 8 long flexible tentacles ………………………Octopus, Fig 1
(Cephalopoda, Octopoda)

10 a) has several mouth along the oral arm ……………Whited spotted Jellyfish, Fig 9
(Scyphozoa, Rhyzostomeae)

b) the mouth is surrounded by ring of tentacles……………Pearsonothuria Sea

Cucumber, Fig 2
(Holothuroidea, Holthuriida)
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Fig 5

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Fig 6

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Fig 7

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Fig 8

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Fig 9

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Fig 10

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Anon., n.d. britannica. [Online]

Available at: https://www.britannica.com/animal/hermit-crab
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Anon., n.d. bugguide. [Online]

Available at: https://www.mdfrc.org.au/bugguide/display.asp?type=2&class=17
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Anon., n.d. field guide to common texas insects. [Online]

Available at: https://texasinsects.tamu.edu/water-striders/
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Anon., n.d. image du monde. [Online]
Available at: http://www.picture-worl.org/cnidaire-nouvelle-caledonie-mastigias-papua-lesson-
1830.html
[Accessed 28 june 2021].

Anon., n.d. invertebrate zoology. [Online]

Available at: https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/iz/discover-invertebrates/pearsonothuria-
graeffei/
[Accessed 29 june 2021].

Anon., n.d. missouri department of conversation. [Online]

Available at: https://mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/field-guide/damselfly-larvae
[Accessed 27 june 2021].

Anon., n.d. wikipedia org. [Online]

Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaster_typicus
[Accessed 28 june 2021].

Byres, D., n.d. [Online]

Available at: http://web.fscj.edu/David.Byres/fiddler/uca.htm
[Accessed 28 june 2021].