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1Echinodermata
Riley Galton Julia Heunis David Lin
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2Echinoderm Classes
Riley Galton
- Asteroidea Sea Stars
- Multiple arms radiating from central disk
- Tube feet on bottom
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- Ophiuroidea Brittle Stars
- Distinct central disk with snake like arms
- Tube feet lack suckers
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3Echinoderm Classes
Riley Galton
- Echinoidea Sea Urchins and Sand Dollars
- No arms, but 5 rows of tube feet
- Have muscles that can move
- spines
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- Crinoidea Feather Stars and Sea Lilies
- Flexible arms used in suspension feeding
- Havent changed in 500 million years
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4Echinoderm Classes
Riley Galton
- Holothuroidea Sea Cucumbers
- Reduced endoskeleton
- Five rows of tube feet
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- Concentricycloidea Sea Daisies
- Only two known species
- Disk shaped, less than 1cm in diameter
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5Echinoderm Sensory Structures
Riley Galton
- Eyespots on the ends of ambulacra are sensitive
to light - Pedicellariae (jaw like skeletal structures used
to keep organisms from settling on skin), tube
feet, and spines are sensitive to touch - http//www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/echinodermata/echinom
m.html
6Echinoderm Reproduction
Riley Galton
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- Sexual
- Eggs and sperm are released into the water where
they are fertilized - Larvae are planktonic
- Internal fertilization has been observed in
certain species of sea stars, brittle stars, and
sea cucumbers - Asexual
- Echinoderms can regenerate body parts and organs
- Asexual reproduction can occur (though not by
will) if the echinoderm is torn with enough of
the body on each part - http//www.oceaninn.com/guides/echino.htm
http//www.starfish.ch/Fotos/echinoderms
7Body Cavity (Coelom)
Julia Heunis
- PRESENT!
- Coelom A fluid-filled cavity between body wall
and gut lined by mesoderm - Two parts
- Perivisceral coelom large, fluid-filled cavity
where major organs, digestive tube and sex
organs, are suspended - Water Vascular System - network of hydraulic
canals unique to echinoderms that branches into
extensions (tube feet) which function in
locomotion, feeding and gas exchange
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eneral20Zoology20Terminology.htm http//biology.
kenyon.edu/courses/biol112/Biol112WebPage/Syllabus
/Topics/Week207/Resources/coelom.GIF http//www.b
ritannica.com/EBchecked/topic/452108/perivisceral-
coelom http//www.und.nodak.edu/instruct/jvaughan/
b151/VOCAB_vertebrates.html
8Body Symmetry
Julia Heunis
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- evolved from animals with bilateral symmetry
- adult echinoderms possess radial symmetry
- All echinoderms exhibit fivefold radial symmetry
in portions of their body at some stage of life
(5 parts around central axis), even if they have
secondary bilateral symmetry - For the most part
- LARVAE bilateral
- ADULTS radial
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echinoderm
9Excretory System
Julia Heunis
- NO true excretory system!
- Main opening of a sponge used only to EXPEL WASTE
- Anus leads directly from stomach/digestive tract
- Anus top
- mouth bottom
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10Olivia Heunis
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11Skeletal TypeEchinodermata Spiny Skinned
Julia Heunis
- DO NOT possess an exoskeleton
- a thin outermost skin covers a mesodermal
endoskeleton made of tiny calcified plates and
spines - forms rigid support contained within
tissues of the organism - Skeleton composed of skeletal plates called
ossicles - Ossicles small bones
- In some species, such as the sea urchin, plates
of the skeleton are locked together to form a
rigid structure. - most sea stars and brittle stars can flex their
arms skeleton has gaps, flexible plate
junctures
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12Other Unique Features
Julia Heunis
- Echinoderms can REGENERATE
- ex sea cucumbers can eject a portion of gut in
response to predators and regenerate when safe - Water vascular system (described earlier) is
unique to echinoderms varies water pressure to
control tube feet - Crinoids and some brittle stars passive
filter-feeders, absorbing suspended particles
from passing water - sea urchins grazers
- sea cucumbers deposit feeders
- starfish active hunters
http//www.starfish.ch/reef/echinoderms.html
13More Unique Features
Julia Heunis
- Autonomy The spontaneous self amputation of an
appendage when the organism is injured or under
attack. The autotomized part is usually
regenerated. - arms ? multiples of 5 some have more because
of regeneration - mutable collagenous tissue connect ossicles
can maintain different positions without much
effort
http//www.starfish.ch/reef/echinoderms.html
14Nervous System
David Lin
- Decentralized
- central nerve ring surrounds gut, connect radial
nerves. - Radial nerves run under each arm, coordinate
movement, etc. - Do not have brains, but some have ganglia along
radial nerves
http//www.tolweb.org/Echinodermata
15Digestive System
David Lin
- Complete digestive system (tubular gut), mouth to
anus. (bottom to top) - Crinoidia filter-feed, use cilia
- Asteroidea Cardiac (evert), pyloric stomach,
digestive glands - Urchins Aristotles lantern (masticatory
apparatus) - Holothurians suspension/deposit feeders, use
tentacles. - http//www.experiencefestival.com/a/Sea_star_-_Int
ernal_Anatomy/id/2099728
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16Locomotion/Musculature
David Lin
- Utilize water vascular system and tube feet
- Water in from madreporite, pumped into ampulla by
radial canal - Ampulla contracts, water to podia
- Podia contracts, water to ampulla
- Podia bend, shorten allows movement (vacuum and
suction)
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es/echinoderm.html
17Gas Exchange
David Lin
- Asteroids, crinoids dermal gills (thin
epidermis) - Urchins infolds of body wall (bursae) opening to
outside - Sand dollars modified podia on top (petaloids)
which are thin-walled and flaplike. - Holothurians highly branched hindgut called
"respiratory tree"
http//faculty.vassar.edu/mehaffey/academic/animal
structure/outlines/echinodermata.html
18Circulatory System
David Lin
- Mostly in perivisceral coelom, enhanced by water
vascular system and hemal system. - Hemal system series of canals and spaces mostly
in coelomic channels. Fluid movement by cilia.
Used to distribute nutrients. No respiratory
system.
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structure/outlines/echinodermata.htmlhttp//www.d
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19Quiz
- Echinodermata have ________ symmetry as larvae,
but display ________ symmetry as adults. - What allows Echinoderms to function in
locomotion, feeding and gas exchange? - Sea stars can grow new arms and sea cucumbers can
replace their gut after ejecting them. What
feature of echinoderms does this demonstrate? - Name the stomachs of a sea star. Functions?
20Answers
- Bilateral, radial
- Water vascular system
- Regeneration
- Cardiac, pyloric evert and enzymes, further
digestion