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Ctenophora Cnidaria Anthozoa Scyphozoa Hydrozoa Contents
Phyla
Cnidaria and Ctenophora
Radial or biradial symmetry
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Contents
• Phylum Cnidaria
 Unique characteristics
 Systems
• 1 (Integumentary, skeletal, muscle and digestive)
• 2 (Excretory, respiratory, circulatory and nervous)
• 3 (Endocrine and reproductive)
 Taxonomy
• Phylum Ctenophora
 Unique characteristics
 Comparison to Cnidaria
 Taxonomy
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Phylum Cnidaria
• Some unique characteristics
 Nematocysts
 Alternation of generations
• (polyp and medusa body forms)
 Planula larva
 Mesoglea
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Cnidaria Systems 1
• Integumentary
 One cell layer (epidermis)
• Skeletal
 Hydrostatic or some with endoskeletons and/or
exoskeleton of calcium carbonate (Anthozoa)
• Muscle
 None; epith-muscle cells (fibers from cells into
mesoglea) Anthozoa may have muscles
• Digestive
 Incomplete
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Cnidaria Systems 2
• Excretory
 Isotonic in marine; some freshwater forms use
contractile vacuoles)
• Respiratory
 No system , use cellular diffusion
• Circulatory
 No system, use cellular diffusion and mesoglea
• Nervous
 Nerve net (ring around the bell of medusa)
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Cnidaria Systems 3
• Endocrine
 Have hormones, secreted by nervous system
• Reproductive
 Alternation of generations, vary as to dominant stage
• Medusa is the sexual body plan
• Polyp is the asexual body plan
 Planula larva
 Dioecious or monoecious
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Cnidaria Taxonomy
• Class Hydrozoa
(hi-dro-zo-ah)
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Hydra,
Obelia,
Gonionemus,
Physalia
• Class Anthozoa
(an-tho-zo-ah)
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Metridium
Tubipora
Gorgonia
Other anthozoan coral
• Class Scyphozoa
• Class Cubozoa
(sky-fo-zo-ah)
(ku-bo-zo-ah)
 Aurelia
 No specimens
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Class Hydrozoa
• Alternation of generation with polyp as the
dominant body plan
• Incomplete digestive with an unbranched
gut.
• Mesoglea thin
• Medusa with a velum
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Class Hydrozoa
Genus— Hydra
CS through hydra
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Class Hydrozoa
Genus— Obelia
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Class Hydrozoa
Genus— Gonionemus
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Class Hydrozoa
Genus— Physalia
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Class Scyphozoa
• Alternation of generation with medusa the
dominant body plan
• Incomplete digestive with four branches
• Mesoglea thick with some cells
• Medusa without velum
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Class Scyphozoa
Genus— Aurelia
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Class Anthozoa
• No alternation of generation - polyps only
• Incomplete digestive with 6 to 8 branches
(septia)
• Nematocyst in the gut (acontia)
• Mesoglea thick and with muscle tissue
• Coral Reefs
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Class Anthozoa
Genus — Metridium
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Class Anthozoa
Genus — Tubipora
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Class Anthozoa
Genus — Gorgonia
Sea fan
String coral
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Other Anthozoan Coral
Astrangia
Fungia
Brain coral
Lettuce coral
Sea pansy
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Coral Reefs
• Fringing reef
 Close to land mass none or a narrow lagoon between
land and shore.
• Barrier reef
 Has a wide and deep lagoon between reef and shore
line.
• Atolls
 Reefs that encircle a lagoon, but there is no island
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Phylum Ctenophora
• Unique Characteristics
 Comb plates
 Medusa only
 Luminescence common
 Position of paired tentacles changes
symmetry to biradial
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Comparison Ctenophora to
Ctenophora
• Differences
 No alternation of
generations (medusa
only)
 No nematocysts
 Biradial symmetry, two
tentacles
 Combs
 Complete digestive
system
 May be triploblastin
• Similarities
 Aboral-oral axis
 Nerve net
 Lack of organ systems
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Taxonomy Phylum Ctenophora
• Class Tentaculata (ten-tack-u-la-ta)
 Pleurobrachia
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