Click on a phylum below to learn more about it. Nine Phyla within kingdom animalia Click on a phylum below to learn more about it. Mollusca Platyhelminthes Arthropoda Porifera Nematoda Echinodermata Cnidaria Annelida Chordata Pima Medical Institute Online Education

Click on another kingdom to learn more or Exit PHYLUM mOLLUSCA INFORMATION EXAMPLES Name Means: Soft Characteristics: Muscular foot and mantle; round shell Fun Fact: Squids have eight arms and two tentacles while octopi have eight arms and no tentacles Cellular Respiration Snails, clams, octopi (shown), squids Click on another kingdom to learn more or Exit

Click on another kingdom to learn more or Exit PHYLUM Porifera INFORMATION EXAMPLES Name Means: Pore bearer Characteristics: Perforated interior wall Fun Facts: The cartoon character Sponge Bob Square Pants is based on the phylum porifera. Cellular Respiration Amoebocytes, sponges (shown) Click on another kingdom to learn more or Exit

Click on another kingdom to learn more or Exit PHYLUM Cnidaria INFORMATION EXAMPLES Name Means: Stinging nettle Characteristics: Stinging cells; development of some tissue formation between the main “body” of the organism and tenacles or other parts Fun Fact: Cnidarians don't need a brain or a heart; nerves and receptors help them move about, detect danger, and find prey Jellyfish (shown), coral Cellular Respiration Click on another kingdom to learn more or Exit

Click on another kingdom to learn more or Exit PHYLUM Platyhelminthes INFORMATION EXAMPLES Name Means: “Platy” means flat and “helminthes” refers to worms Characteristics: Flat worms; bilateral symmetry; almost all are parasitic and need a host Fun Fact: Tapeworms are common in cats and dogs; some can migrate to the throat, eye, and, eventually, the brain Cellular Respiration Tapeworms (shown) Click on another kingdom to learn more or Exit

Click on another kingdom to learn more or Exit PHYLUM Nematoda INFORMATION EXAMPLES Name Means: Thread-like Characteristics: Round cross section, keratin cuticle Fun Fact: Roundworms are the most abundant worm on earth; a single rotting apple was found to have more than 90,000 roundworms Ascaris, pinworms (shown), hookworms, heartworms Cellular Respiration Click on another kingdom to learn more or Exit

Click on another kingdom to learn more or Exit PHYLUM Annelida INFORMATION EXAMPLES Name Means: Little ring Characteristics: Multiple circular segment Fun Fact: Leeches are parasitic while earthworms are not Cellular Respiration Leeches (shown), earthworms Click on another kingdom to learn more or Exit

Click on another kingdom to learn more or Exit PHYLUM Arthropoda INFORMATION EXAMPLES Name Means: Jointed foot Characteristics: Chitin exoskeleton Fun Fact: Arthropods are the first animals with extremities Ants, flies, crabs, spiders (shown), scorpions, ticks, and mites Cellular Respiration Click on another kingdom to learn more or Exit

Click on another kingdom to learn more or Exit PHYLUM echinodermata INFORMATION EXAMPLES Name Means: Spiny skin Characteristics: Five-fold radial symmetry in living forms, mesodermal calcified spines Fun Fact: Echinodermata have a complete digestive tract, and they are the last of the animal phyla for creatures without spinal cords Cellular Respiration Starfish, sea urchin (shown) Click on another kingdom to learn more or Exit

Click on another kingdom to learn more or Exit PHYLUM Chordata INFORMATION EXAMPLES Name Means: Cord Characteristics: Developed brain and spinal cord; use extremities to aid in the movement to land; not all have a backbone Fun Fact: The largest chordate is the blue whale Humans, dogs, monkeys (shown), birds, whales, horses, snakes Cellular Respiration Click on another kingdom to learn more or Exit

Start Over Resources End of presentation Dnr.state.md.us Nationalgeographicstock.com Oceanicresearch.org Instruction.cvhs.okstate.edu Flickrhivemind.net Spiderbitesymptomsguide.com Alaska-in-pictures.com Saltaquarium.about.com Curiousanimals.net End of presentation Start Over