Marine Microbes
These microbes can be divided into "yeasts" and "molds"
Fungi
This structure is used by seaweeds to attach themselves to the seafloor
holdfast
These are the simplest multicellular animals
Sponges
Animals using a radula for feeding belong to this Phylum
Mollusca
Seaweeds in the phylum Chlorophytae are usually this color
Green
These microbes are often described as"extremophiles"
Archaea/archaeons
Coralline algae get their name from this mineral embedded into their tissues
calcium carbonate/calcite/CaCO3
Phylum Ctenophora contains these marine animals (common name)
comb jellies
The common name for animals in Class Polyplacophora
chitons
Giant kelp and other seaweeds in phylum Phaeophytae are usually this color
Brown
These microbes have a "glass" frustule (made of silica/SiO2)
Stramenopiles (Diatoms)
This phylum of seaweeds contains red algae
Rhodophyta
Sea anemones and true corals belong to this Class
Anthozoa
'Tusk shells' belong to this Class
Scaphopoda (Scaphopods)
True jellyfish belong to this Class
Scyphozoa
These microbes have 2 flagella and sometimes live inside corals
Dinoflagellates/Alveolates/Zooxanthellae
This is the horizontal portion of seagrass that lies within the sediment
rhizome
The Portuguese man-of-war belongs to this class of colonial Cnidarians
Hydrozoa
Sea hares (which are not larval manatees) belong to this Class
Gastropoda (gastropods)
"Asconoid" is a simple, tube-shaped body type used by this multicellular marine animal
sponge
These microbes use pseudopods for locomotion and prey capture
amoeboid protozoans
This group of marine plants have culms and tillers
salt marsh plants
This Phylum contains animals that have 2 valves, but are not bivalve mollusks
Brachiopoda/lamp shells
The fleshy stalk that clams use to circulate seawater in/out of their bodies
Siphon
This feeding strategy is used by horn snails, earthworms and other benthic detritovores
deposit feeding