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Cnidarian Phylogeny
Fig. 9.1
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Number of Species
9000+ species
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Cnidarian Lifecycle
Fig. 9.10
N.B. Incomplete Digestive Tube
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Taxonomy of Phylum Cnidaria• Class Anthozoa• Solitary or colonial polyps• Class Staurozoa• Only solitary polyps• Class Cubozoa• Medusa prominent, cuboid• Class Scyphozoa• Medusa prominent, cnidocytes
in ectodermis & endodermis• Class Hydrozoa• Polyps prominent, often colonial,
cnidocytes in ectodermis
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Hydrostatic Skeleton
Fig. 23.10
bands
bands
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Cnidocytes
Fig. 9.9
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Firing the Cnidocytes
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Firing the Cnidocytes
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Body Wall
Fig. 9.8
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Extra vs. Intra-cellular
Digestion
Fig. 27.2
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Polyp Feeding
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Anthozoa AnatomyFig. 9.19
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ScyphozoaAnatomy
Fig. 9.15
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Scyphozoa Life Cycle
Fig. 9.16Strobilization
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Rhopalium
Tentacle
Pedalium
Cubozoa Anatomy
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Hydrozoa Anatomy
Fig. 9.12
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Hydrozoan Lifecycle
Fig. 9.11
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Medusa Locomotion
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Nerve Net
Fig. 24.7
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Diffusion for Respiration/Excretion
Figs. 26.1 & 26.11
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Ecology
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Ctenophora
Fig. 9.22
Colloblast
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Phosphorescent Comb Jellies
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Next Class- Platyhelminthes
● Miller and Harley Chap. 10