Porifera and coelenterates
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Porifera and Coelenterates
Chiara Tondini & Nicole Angarano
PORIFERA, kingdom animaliaThe phylum of sponges which are sessile, suspension-feeding, multicellular animals.They are probably an early evolutionary side branch that gave rise to no other group of animals. Except for about 150 freshwater species, sponges are marine animals. This Phylum is divided in four
Class
Class calcarea or calcispongiae
Class hyalospongiae or hexactinellida
Class demospongiae
Class sclerospongiae
Porifera’s characteristics• They have bodies full of pores and channels allowing water to circulate through them;• Sponges have unspecialized cells that can transform into other types;• Sponges do not have nervous, digestive or circulatory systems;•There are different types of cells: flagellated choanocytes, epithelial cells and amebocytes,•They have a radial simmetry.
The reproduction• Asexual: Fragments of sponges may be detached by currents or waves and they re-attach themselves to a suitable surface.• Sexual: Most sponges are hermaphrodites (function as both sexes simultaneously). Sperm are produced by choanocytes while eggs are formed by transformation of archeocytes.
Asexual Sexual
Coelenterates’ characteristics •They have very simple tissue organization;•They can be like a bell, for example jellyfishes, or be like a vase, for example polyps.•There are a type of cells, cnidocytes, these "nettle cells" function as harpoons that are used for prey capture and defense from predators.•There is statocisti and eyepots.•The life cycle of cnidaria is divided in three phases: larval form, planula,polypoid stage and stage medusoide,•Only one opening for digestive systems.
COELENTERATES, kingdom animaliaA group of primitive aquatic
animals that includes jellyfish, corals, hydra and sea anemones.
Coelenterates are sessile (sedentary) and exhibit radial
symmetry (their body parts are symmetrically arranged around
a central point).Coelenterates
Hydrozoans
Floating Fixed Floating Fixed
Scifozoi Anthozoans Cubozoi
Fixed Floating
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