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CRUSTACEANS
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Phylum…
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Characteristics of Arthropods (review) Segmented body Bilateral symmetry Jointed appendages Exoskeleton of chitin Molting…
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Characteristics of Crustaceans Exoskeleton hardened by calcium carbonate Green Gland Excretory (urine) Head with 5 pairs of antennae 2 pairs of antennae (sensing surroundings) 1 pair of mandibles 2 pairs feeding appendages Fused cephalothorax Gills Appendages for swimming, crawling, attaching to things, mating, feeding
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Small Crustaceans 1. Cirripedia (“wispy feet”) Barnacles filter feed with wispy legs (cirripeds) sessile cement by antennal glands upside down, in 2 nd larval stage hermaphrodites! Fertilize their neighbors movable plates open the shell
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Barnacle Mating!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBtBAYYfrEE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBtBAYYfrEE Poorly-endowed barnacles overthrow 150-year-old belief Poorly-endowed barnacles overthrow 150-year-old belief by Ed Yong Nat Geo In absolute terms, the blue whale has the largest penis of any animal—a huge mobile appendage that can reach 10 feet in length. But the blue whale itself is enormous. If you take body size into account, the animal kingdom’s champion penis belongs to a much smaller creature, and one that often lives on the faces of whales. It’s the barnacle…. has the largest penishas the largest penis They do so with a huge penis, which blindly reaches across into neighbouring shells and deposits sperm inside. This giant organ can stretch up to eight times a barnacle’s own body length, making it proportionately the biggest penis in the animal world. Since most barnacles are hermaphrodites, every individual can fertilise and be fertilised by all of its neighbours. And if there’s no one else within reach, the barnacles apparently fertilise themselves.
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2. Copepoda zooplankton—most abundant animals on earth! Eyespot 1st antennae used to swim Filter feed or capture food Many parasitic Convert food to wax (high energy)
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3. Isopoda (“same leg”) Tiny! <2cm unless deep sea (huge!) Main body has legs similar to each other Dorsoventrally compressed (flat back) Similar walking legs Heart in abdomen Many parasitic Marsupium Egg pouch til hatch Pillbugs, fish lice
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4. Amphipoda “double legs” Tiny! <2cm unless deep sea (huge!) Laterally compressed (flattened sideways) “bent”—curved body Jumping legs Marsupium Whale lice
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5. Euphasidae Krill—shrimplike plankton Up to 6 cm Head fused, carapace of “armor” 8 pairs walking legs Exposed gills Eggs on swimming legs Common in polar waters— gigantic schools Deep sea also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4kngwWo HSs
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Large Crustaceans 6. Decapoda (10 legs) 5 pairs walking legs Gills protected in chamber Gastric mill-food grinding cavity Eggs on swimming legs Shrimps, lobsters, crabs-- ~10,000 species! Hermit crabs, fiddler crabs, blue crabs, but NOT Horseshoe crabs!
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Horseshoe Crabs Not “true crabs” Living “fossils” Ancestors from 450 mya, not much change Horseshoe-shaped carapace, 5 pairs of legs Beaches for reproduction
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