MARE 171

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Marine Invertebrates, Pt 2
MARE 171
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Phylum Mollusca
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Phylum Mollusca

• 2nd largest phylum (110,000 spp)

Body Plan
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Phylum Mollusca
Rudy, you're like school during summer
vacationYeah, no class. - Russell Cosby
Class Polyplacophora - Chitons Class Gastropoda
- Gastropods, snails their relatives Class
Bivalvia - Bivalves Class Cephalopoda -
Cephalopods, squids octopuses

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Class Polyplacophora
Phylum Mollusca
Chitons Exclusively Marine
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Phylum Mollusca
Class Gastropoda

• Largest group of mollusks -
  40,000 75,000 spp
• Marine?sea slug Terrestrial? slug snail

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Class Gastropoda
Phylum Mollusca

• Cone Shells
• powerful sting used to
• capture prey
• Some humans have been fatally wounded
• especially those that feed upon mollusks fishes
• at least 500 spp in world's warm waters
• Animal inside shell often w/ distinctive
  coloration

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Class Gastropoda
Phylum Mollusca

• Hawaiian limpet (Cellana sandwicensis)
• On boulders in high intertidal zone
• Has coarse ribs animal's foot is yellow
• Shell interior is light gray 2.5 in
• All spp are endemic but rare in accessible areas
• Highly prized for food, but 5 annual drownings
  associated w/ fishing practices

• Limpets (opihi)

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Class Gastropoda
Phylum Mollusca

• Cowries
• animals' mantle is on outside
• secreting the shell from the top-down keeping
  it protected most other shells secreted from
  inside-out
• hence glossy interior of many shells
• remain hidden during day
• emerge at night to feed  
• Empty but intact shells are usually the result of
  predation by cone shells
• Algal or sponge grazers

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Class Gastropoda?Subclass Opisthobranchia
Phylum Mollusca

• Nudibranchs, Bubble Shells, Sea Hares
• Evolutionary process of abandoning shells in
  favor of chemical/biological defenses
• Name means gills behind?
• gills are near anus
• Eggs are huge coiled masses
• Larvae begin w/out shells (trochophore)?develop
  into shelled planktonic larvae (veliger) ?then
  settle lose their shell to form adult

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Phylum Mollusca
Class Bivalvia
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Phylum Mollusca
Class Bivalvia
Marine invertebrates w/ clams, oysters,
scallops, mussels
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Class Bivalvia
Phylum Mollusca

• Pearl Oysters
• Blacklipped Pearl Oyster (Pinctada margaritifera
  )
• Uncommon in quiet bays shallow reefs
• Attached to reef at the hinge end w/ byssal
  threads NOT TRUE OYSTER
• Easily identified by the fringed opening of
  valves
• Produces high-quality pearls cultured
  extensively outside Hawaii
• Nearly exterminated locally at the beginning of
  the 1900's
• Illegal to collect

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Phylum Mollusca
Class Cephalopoda
Ah, Squiddy! I got nothing against ye. I just
heard there was gold in yer belly. Ha ha har, ha
ha ha har! - Sea Captain McCallister
Cephalopods a class of Mollusks that have an
elaborate nervous and muscular system are
carnivorous e.g. squid, octopods, cuttlefish,
nautilus
Squid
Octopus
Nautilus
Cuttlefish
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Phylum Mollusca
Class Cephalopoda

• modification of the mollusk foot
• muscular hydrostat, into the form of arms or
  tentacles
• Ejects ink defense

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Class CephalopodaThe Squid and the Whale

• Predators Sperm Whales
• Battles leave sucker marks on skin
• Cameras have been placed on sperm whales in hopes
  of seeing the squid

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Class CephalopodaThe Squid and the Whale
Beached in New Zealand, 1996
December 2006

• Discovery!
• First Giant Squid (Architeuthis)
  ever photographed LIVE
  (9/05)
• North Pacific Ocean in
  Japanese waters
• 25 ft long
• 2,950 ft (900 m) deep
• used baited fishing line

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Phylum Arthropoda
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Phylum Arthropoda
The most diverse phylum, largest geographical
distribution, most numbers Total population of
arthropods on Earth is estimated at around
Ancestry Closest Relatives morphological,
embryological, molecular studies indicate Phyla
Tardigrada Onychophora
velvet worms
waterbears
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Phylum Arthropoda

• Basic Body Plan
• Heteronomous metamerism
• Extensive fusion of segments w/ similar
  function?tagmata
• cephalothorax
• Each segment bears a pair of jointed appendages
• Wide adaptation of appendages for multiple
  functions
• Sensory (antennae), feeding (mandibles, maxillae,
  maxillipeds)
• Integument
• Hardened via deposition of CaPO4 or CaCO3 salts

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Phylum Arthropoda
Phylum Arthropoda includes the following
divisions Subphylum Crustacea (The
crustaceans) Subphylum Hexapoda, (The
insects) Subphylum Cheliceraformes (The horseshoe
crabs arachnids) Class Trilobita (extinct)
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Phylum Arthropoda
Subphylum Crustacea
Yar, I'm running a school for lobsters, we
practice tough love, daily chores etc. No?Okay,
I understand, it can be hard to let go. Tell me
this then ... do ye have any spare change? - Sea
Captain McCallister
Consisting mainly of aquatic species
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Phylum Arthropoda
Subphylum Crustacea
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Phylum Arthropoda
Subphylum Hexapoda
Largest class of animals on Earth, comprising of
at least three fourths the animals on the
planet Includes insects, springtails, etc
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Phylum Arthropoda
Subphylum Hexapoda
MARINE INSECTS Very rare only 250-350 spp Why?
Include spp of open ocean (pelagic), of tide
pools (those in intertidal zone), beach marsh
dwelling (those regularly exposed to salt water
from tides)

• Bledius spectabilis, Rove Beetle
• Burrows in intertidal zone
• ? very narrow openings at surface (lt 2 mm)? when
  covered by water, air pressure in the burrow
  keeps water out

• Halobates, Sea Skaters
• Dont dive
• Feed on zooplankton, dead jellyfish, fish eggs
• Lay eggs on floating debris

• Pontomyia, Marine Midge
• Skate on 2 legs (rare)
• ? Reduced wings, skate on ocean surface
• ? larval-like
• Adults live for few hours, die
• Larvae feed on detritus algae

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Phylum Arthropoda
Subphylum Cheliceraformes
Nice doggy Milhouse Van Houten
Includes many animals that have gone extinct ever
since Paleozoic era 2nd most prominent group in
arthropoda after uniramians Classes Arachnida
(spiders, ticks, scorpions) Merostomata
(horseshoe crabs) Chelicerae 2 Tagmata
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I want your blood

• Horseshoe Crabs blood
  contains amoebocyte ?
  cells in blood that act as
  an immune system
• These cells bind to a
  pathogen form a clot
  to
  physically quarantine the
  pathogen
• Pharmaceutical companies use an
  extract of the blood (LAL) to test that
  all finished products are pathogen-free
  before distribution to customers
• Respond to endotoxin secreted by marine
  bacteria

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Phylum Arthropoda
Class Trilobita
First appeared approximately 540 million years
ago Closest living relatives are horseshoe crabs
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Phylum Bryozoa
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Phylum Bryozoa
Aquatic organisms, living in colonies
lophophore
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Phylum Echinodermata
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Phylum Echinodermata

• Largest phylum to lack any freshwater or land
  representatives
• Most are pentameral
• Have a system of
• Include starfish, sand dollars, brittle stars,
  sea cucumbers, sea urchins

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Phylum Echinodermata
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Phylum Echinodermata

• Class Echinoidea sea urchins, sand dollars
• Class Asteroidea starfish
• Class Chrinoidea sea lilies, feather stars
• Class Holothuroidea sea cucumbers
• Class Ophiuroidea brittle stars

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Class Echinoidea
Sea urchins, heart urchins, sand dollars One of
the more diverse successful echinoderm
groups Roe (egg mass) of some spp resulting in a
commercial fishery Larval development of
echinoids has also been studied extensively,
many discoveries in developmental biology have
been made using echinoids Echinoids also have a
substantial fossil record
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Sea Urchin Larvae Development
Pleutius larvae planktonic for 1-2 months
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Class Echinoidea

• Very efficient locomotory system
• hydraulic tube-feet?
• skeleton is a symmetrical structure made of
  close-fitting calcareous plates - which grow in a
  definite pattern, constantly adding
• armed w/

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Class Asteroidea
True starfish Most starfish are predators,
Many, but not all, starfish are able to turn a
portion of their stomachs out through the mouth,
thus digest food outside of the body.
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Phylum Echinodermata
Class Asteroidea

• Sea Stars? Most Common

• Crown-of-Thorns (Acanthaster planci)
• Frequent at scuba depths feeding upon corals
  (usually Pocillopora meandrina)
• Appears fluorescent green at depth
• Spines are tipped w/ venom
• Natural predator Tritons Trumpet less
  frequently Harlequin shrimp
• Has not yet caused significant damage in HI

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Class Chrinoidea
Stalked crinoids, or "sea lilies", Only
attached suspension-feeding echinoderms Important
group for studying the numerous extinct attached
suspension-feeding echinoderms Mostly inhabit
deep water not abundant Unstalked crinoid, or
"feather star
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Class ChrinoideaFeather Star
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Class Holothuroidea

• Sea Cucumbers
• retain pentameral (five-rayed) symmetry,
• Think of a holothurian is as a sea urchin that is
  lying on its side, stretched out, missing much
  of its skeleton
• Has skeletal components?
• Common in the oceans shallow-water habitats
  such (tidepools)

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Class Holothuroidea
Sea Cucumber Anus
Cuvierian Tubules
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Class Ophiuroidea
Over 1600 spp - brittle stars basket stars
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Species of the Day
Post-larval
Juvenile
Kona White Color Morph
Kona Black Color Morph

• Common Name Yellow Tang
• Scientific Name Zebrasoma flavescens
• Hawaiian Name Lau'ipala