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?