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Animal Diversity
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What is an Animal? Animal Characteristics –Eukaryotic –Multicellular –Heterotrophic –Lack cell walls Unique combination
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Other Interesting Features Internal digestion (digestive tract) Life cycle –Diploid adults produce haploid gametes –Some develop directly to adult form –some go through a larval (immature) stage Metamorphosis = change in body from larva to adult
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Evolution of Animal Life
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Phylum Porifera Add sponge diagram & pics
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Radial Symmetry
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Phylum Cnidaria
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Cnidocytes
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Bilateral Symmetry
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Phylum Platyhelmenthes
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Body Cavities - Acoelomate
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Body Cavities - Pseudocoelomate
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Body Cavities - Coelomate
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Phylum Nematoda
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Phylum Moluska
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Mollusk Key Features
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Segmentation
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Phylum Annelida
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Phylum Arthropoda
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Arthropod Body Plan
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Phylum Echinodermata
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Phylum Chordata
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Vertebrates
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First Vertebrates Agnathans (jawless fishes) Lampreys & hagfish
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Evolution of Jaws
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Fish Most successful & diverse group of vertebrates –~30,800 living species –Amphibians evolved from them Key characteristics –Gills –Vertebral column –Single loop circulatory system –Nutritional deficiencies
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Fish
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Evolution of Amphibians
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Amphibians AnuraUrodella
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Evolution of Amniotes
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Extant Reptiles
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Evolution of Birds from Reptiles
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Extant Birds
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Mammalia
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