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Anatomy
Errant Vs Sedentary
100
What is the taxonomy of a polychaete
What is Kingdom- Animalia Phylum- Annelida Class- Polychaeta
100
What type of Polychaete is the bearded fire worm?
What is Errant
100
How many species are living today?
What is approximately 10,000
100
What do Polychaetes use for locomotion and sometimes respiration?
What is Parapodia
100
What is the main difference between errant and sedentary Polychaetes?
What is whether they are motile or not
200
what are two nicknames for Polychaetes?
What is Marine worms, and Bristle worms
200
What kind of feeder is the sea mouse?
What is a predator and scavenger
200
Typically how many eyes do Polychaetes have?
What is two to four pairs of eyes
200
polychaetes bristles are called
What is chaetae or setae
200
What do errant Polychaetes have that sedentary ones dont?
What is Parapodia
300
what are the two main groups of Polychaetes
What is Errant and sedentary
300
Give the scientific name of any one Polychaete
many possible answers
300
what is the range of sizes of Polychaetes?
What is from 1 mm to 200 ft long
300
All Polychaetes have simple circulatory systems and many have no need for what?
What is a heart
300
Errant Polychaetes have well developed what?
What is sensory organs and jaws
400
What differentiates Polychaetes from other annelids?
What is the nuchal organs
400
The Lamellibrachia is entirely reliant on an internal what for its nutrition
What is a sulfide-oxidizing symbiotic bacteria
400
Polychaetes date from how many years ago?
What is 580 – 545 million years ago
400
Most polychaetes are either male or female but some are what?
What is hermaphroditic
400
what is the ventral sac used for in sedentary Polychaetes?
What is to store sand or materials used to fix or make their tubes
500
What are the most extreme environments Polychaetes live in?
What is the abyssal plains and the hydrothermal vents
500
at what age can the Lamellibrachia live?
What is 250 years old
500
Only 2% or how many species live in fresh water
What is 168 species
500
what are rapidly everted to grab food and pull into their mouths?
What is the jaws and a pharynx
500
What can sedentary Polychaetes use for to make their tubes?
What is mucus, calcium or sand.
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