The document discusses the phylum Bryozoa, which includes small colonial animals that often resemble moss or lichen. Bryozoans are characterized by having a lophophore used for feeding, being colonial with interconnected zooids produced asexually, and having an exoskeleton called a zooecium secreted by each zooid. They lack specialized organs for functions like excretion, gas exchange, and circulation. Bryozoans exhibit a range of morphologies and growth forms and can be confused with hydroids, corals, or fungi. They reproduce both sexually and asexually.
5. Animals that are Moss likePhylum Bryozoa CnidarianHydroid Polyp Bryozoan Zooid
6. Animals that are Moss likePhylum Bryozoa Many different growth forms with the zooeciummade from calcium, chiton or protein Erect and branching e.g. Bugula sp The spiral bryozoan
7. Animals that are Moss likePhylum Bryozoa Many confuse them with hydroids or with corals e.g. Heteroporasp.thestaghornbryozoan
8. Animals that are Moss likePhylum Bryozoa Some look more like a fungus than moss e.g. Hippodiplosia sp. the fluted bryozoan
9. Animals that are Moss likePhylum Bryozoa Many others are encrusting e.g. Membranipora sp. the lacy kelp bryozoan e.g. Disporella sp. The purple bryozoan
10. Animals that are Moss likePhylum Bryozoa Byrozoan Polymorphism Different zooids can perform different functions Autozooids for feeding and reproduction
11. Animals that are Moss likePhylum Bryozoa Zooid is a single sex Colonies are hermaphroditic Ovicells are brooding chambers in the colony Free swimming larva emerge from ovicell, settle onto a suitable substrate and metamorph First zooid in a colony = ancestrula Forms new colonies by asexual budding
12. Animals that are Moss likePhylum Bryozoa Byrozoan Polymorphism Different zooids can perform different functions Heterozoids for cleaning and protection
13. Animals that are Moss likePhylum Bryozoacommon predators are crabs and nudibranchs
18. Animals that are Clam likePhylum Brachiopoda 350 current species, as many as 30,000 known fossil species Dioecious broadcast spawners
19. Animals that are Worm likePhylum Nematodaone of the largest animal phyla occurring freely and abundantly almost everywhere
20. Animals that are Worm likePhylum Nematoda Unsegmented with a cylindrical body shape Covered by a tough exoskeleton – collagenous cuticle Cuticle sheds (molts) as the nematode grows
21. Animals that are Worm likePhylum Nematoda Complete digestive tract No circulatory system Muscles are all longitudinal – thrashing motion
22. Animals that are Worm likePhylum Nematoda Eutely (constancy of cell number) Epithelium is syncytial (many nuclei but not separated by a cell membrane
23. Animals that are Worm likePhylum Nematoda Many parasitic forms Cuticle around mouth with teeth like projections Cuticle protects from host digestive juices
24. Animals that are Worm likePhylum Nematoda Dioecious with internal fertilization Sperm cells amoeboid (not flagellated Females can release >100,000 eggs per day No free-swimming larval stage (emerge from egg as miniature adults) Dauer larva (a stage of developmental arrest)