what is an animal
are animals monophyletic or polyphyletic
monophyletic
who is presumed to resemble animal’s common ancestor
colonial choanoflagellates
earliest and simplest animals were:
marine
sponges
diploblastic animals
have 2 body layers, central gastrovascular cavity, noncentralized nerve net, aquatic (body supported by water)
jellyfish and comb jellies
radial symmetry
if you spun around animal, couldn’t tell where she started
-simpler animals
more complex animals have…
- bilateral symmetry
bilateral symmetry
can tell where you started, obvious anterior/posterior ends
types of deuterostomes
chordates and echinoderms
types of protostomes
lophotrochozoans and ecydosoans
deuterostomes
blastopore becomes anus
-humans
protostomes
blastopore becomes mouth
major traits
-anterior brain that surrounds the entrance of the digestive track
-ventral nervous system containing paired or fused longitudinal nerve chords
acoelomates
do not have enclosed body cavity
pseudocoel
lined with mesoderm, but no mesoderm surrounds internal organs
2 major animal clades
protostomes deuterosomes
lophotrochozoans
ecdysozoans
- shed exoskeleton to grow
deuterostomes
- mouth forms second
most species rich/successful animals
arthropods
arthropods
- success due to body supported by an exoskeleton (chitin) segmented body plan (metameric) and paired jointed apendages
types of arthropods
crustaceans, hexapods, myriapods, chelicerates
crustaceans
marine, terrestrial
EX: lobster