Taxonomy I
Taxonomy II
Body Plan
Ecology
Visual Identification
100
This order includes Daddy Long Legs, which are often mistaken for spiders.
What is Order Opiliones?
100
This order includes dragonflies and damselflies
What is Order Odonata?
100
The shiny layer that coats the inside of bivalve shells, often called "mother of pearl".
What is the nacreous layer?
100
This evolutionary phenomenon of convergently evolving into a certain squat body form has occurred many times in the Decapoda.
What is carcinization?
100
Class
What is class Scaphopoda?
200
This subphylum includes centipedes and millipedes.
What is Subphylum Myriapoda?
200
This is the annelid family that includes 'parchment worms', which live in a u-shaped burrow.
What is Family Chaetopteridae?
200
Leeches have a highly reduced version of this body segment that other members of their class are named for.
What is the clitellum?
200
Some members of the order Hymenoptera exhibit this type of sociality where there is overlap of generations, a caste system, and care of young.
What is eusociality?
200
Species
What is Dreissena polymorpha?
300
The clade name for true limpets, who are all limpet-shaped and marine.
What is Clade Patellogastropoda?
300
The four groups found within Clade Vetigastropoda.
What are Fissurellidae, Haliotidae, Pleurotomariidae, and Trochidae?
300
Sabellid worms have this type of body plan, meaning they have segments of their body that look different.
What is heteronomous?
Bonus: Why would an annelid be heteronomous? What is the opposite and why would that be advantageous?
300
Many members of the class Polyplacophora sequester magnetite while feeding, which helps them do this
What is orient themselves/find food patches and shelter?
300
Subphylum and order
What is subphylum Chelicerata and order Xiphosura?
400
This species of class Polyplacophora can live for 25+ years and their slow reproductive rates, along with the effects of overharvesting, have raised conservation concerns.
What is Cryptochiton stelleri?
400
One of the most widely distributed squids which is also heavily consumed as calamari. This squid breeds often and is considered a "best choice" seafood.
What is Loligo vulgaris?
400
Bivalves have these types of muscles.
What are adductor muscles?
400
Members of family Xenophoridae exhibit this behavior (hint: think of the etymology).
What is carrying other shells on its shell?
400
Family
What is Cypraeidae?
500
Phylum, Class, Cohort, Superorder, Order and Family name for the argonaut/paper nautilus.
What are Phylum Mollusca, Class Cephalopoda, Cohort Coleoidia, Superorder Octopodiformes, Order Octopoda, Family Argonautidae?
500
The phylum, class, cohort, and order of Nautilus spp.
What are Phylum Mollusca, Class Cephalopoda, Cohort Nautilidia, Order Nautilida?
500
The long, thin contractile tentacles possessed by members of Scaphopoda.
What is captacula?
500
This species is the largest of the true mussels and often forms reefs in cold, deep, circumpolar waters.
What is Modiolus modiolus?
500
Genus
What is Nereis?