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Invertebrates
Invertebrates are animals that lack a spinal cord, such as insects. Ask questions here about these organisms that make up 95 percent of all animal life.
1,408 Questions
What does a Doberman look like give me a picture?
I don't have a picture of one, but they can be red, brown, black, and tan.
They have spots above their eyes, they are usually brown. Their chest color are brown and they have short tails.
What genus are leeches classified in?
Leeches are classified in the genus Hirudo, which is part of the class Clitellata within the phylum Annelida. The most commonly known species is Hirudo medicinalis, often used in medical applications. However, there are many other genera of leeches, including Haemopis and Limnatis, which encompass various species adapted to different environments.
Liquid that fills an echinoderms vascular system?
When studying living creatures, it is important to know the details of their lives. Water is the liquid that fills an echinoderms vascular system.
How do hydra respond to a tap on their substrate?
They retract their tentacles into their body stalk.
Little creatures that live at the bottom of the sea.
See related link for more information and a picture.
What characteristics can be found exclusively in vertebrates when compared to invertebrates?
Vertebrates have backbones. Examples are dinosaurs, humans and eagles. Invertebrates have no backbone. Examples are ants, squids and trilobites.
An impala can jump more than 9 meters and 2.5 meters high.
i believe they are the claws on lobsters, crabs, crayfish... Not horseshoe crab's though....
What anamiles haves pecialized stinging cells called nematocysts?
Nematocysts are specific to the phylum Cnidaria, which contains sea anemones, corals, and jellyfish, along with some less well-known animals. Nematocysts are the most common form of cnidocytes, the general term for the stinging cells all cnidarians possess.
Describe the major difference between invertebrate and vertebrate immune systems?
1. Immunological memory:- present in vertebrates but absent in invertebrates.
2. Vertebrates have complement system but invertebrates have prophenoloxidase system
3. Vertebrates have lymphocytes but invertebrates have lectins
4. Antibody present in vertebrates and nit in invertebrates
A filter feeder is an animal that that cleans out the bottom of the ocean or fishboll.
A kind of fish is a filter feeder.
NO - you're thinking of a scavenger - A filter feeder eats plankton and other small particles in the sea. They pull water through their body, straining it for food - push the
water back out and eat any solids found.
What phylum contains invertebrates with a endoskeleton?
None of them. An invertebrate is, by definition, an animal which has no spine.
What is the genus of the brittle star?
Brittle stars belong to the Class: Ophiuroidea. This class is comprised of 3 orders and many families and genus'. In order to determine genus and species, specific animals need to be considered.
Brittle star is the common name for the organism that belongs to the genus and species Orphiothrix spiculata.
An Invertebrate is a creature with no back bone. The most common invertebrates include protozoa, annelids, echinoderms, mollusks and arthropods.
Example of invertebrates: worms, snails, starfish, spiders and crabs.
Is a Potuguese Man of War a parasite?
No it is not a parasite. The Portuguese Man-of-War is a colony of organisms that form what many think is a jellyfish. But the Portuguese Man-of-War is not a jellyfish it is a siphonophore. But it does share some similarities to a jellyfish. It has tentacles that contain poison stinging cells. And the top part of the organism is a gas filled bubble. The Man-of-War can be deadly to humans depending on were you are stung and how big you are.
A Parasite is an organism that benefits off of its host at the expense of the host.
