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Phylum Porifera:
- They are commonly known as sponges.
- These are multicellular organisms that have holes or pores in their bodies.
- They are externally covered by a rigid skeleton made of spicules composed of spongin protein and calcium carbonate.
- The animals of this phylum are non-motile and attached to a solid support.
- They reproduce through asexual and sexual reproduction.
Clock-wise from top left: Leucosolenia (smallest sponge), Euplectella (Venus flower basket), Spongilla (freshwater sponge), Sycon
Phylum Coelenterata:
- They are also known as cnidarians.
- They are aquatic animals that show more body design than the poriferans.
- These are multicellular, diploblastic animals that lack organs.
- They are sessile or free-swimming, solitary or colonial (Hydra is solitary).
- They reproduce through asexual and sexual reproduction.
Clockwise from top left: Aurelia (Jellyfish), Sea anemone, Adamsia, Corals, Hydra
Phylum Platyhelminthes:
- They are commonly known as flatworms.
- These are multicellular triploblastic animals.
- They are sessile or free-swimming animals.
- They are found as either solitary or colonial.
- These are free-living parasites.
- They reproduce through asexual and sexual reproduction.
Clockwise from top left: Planaria, Fasciola hepatica (Liver fluke), Blood fluke, Taenia solium (tapeworm)
Phylum Nematoda or Aschelminthes:
- They are also known as roundworms or pinworms as they have a cylindrical body rather than the flattened one.
- These organisms have an unsegmented body.
- They are triploblastic animals.
- They are mostly parasites in human beings and animals, causing diseases such as elephantiasis and filariasis.
- They reproduce through asexual reproduction and are sexually dimorphic.
Clockwise from top left: Ascaris lumbricoides (roundworm), Wuchereria bancrofti (filarial worm), Trichuris (whipworm), Enterobius vermicularis (pinworm)
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