Where do kinorhynchs live?

Q: Is Hemidactylus poisonous?

A: The Common House Gecko or Hemidactylus is a reptile which occurs in tropical, subtropical, and…

Q: Where do tapeworms live?

A: Tapeworms are flat, segmented worms that live in the intestines of some animals.  Animals can become…

Q: What are the types of reproduction presented by cnidarians?

A: Cniderians:  Cniderians comes under phylum anemalia, which contains both marine and fresh water…

Q: Do all of the tentacles of a squid have suckers?

A: Cephalopods belong to phylum mollusca. These exclusively marine animals are characterized by…

Q: How are tardigrades able to survive in harsh conditions?

A: Tardigrades can be present almost everywhere on the planet. The phylum has been seen from…

Q: What are examples of nematodes?

A: Nematodes play vital ecological roles as parasites, predators, and decomposers of small organisms.…

Q: What are the lateral linesof fishes?

A: Vertebrates comprise all species of animals within the subphylum Vertebrata. Vertebrates include…

Q: What are Annelids ?

A: Phylum Annelida belongs to the kingdom Animalia. They are found in both aquatic and terrestrial…

Q: How do flatworms breathe?

A: The worm of a phylum includes the planarians that will together and the parasitic flukes and…

Q: What does Hemidactylus mean?

A: Geckos are reptiles and are found on all the continents except Antarctica. These colorful lizards…

Q: What are Arthropods ? Explain the characteristics of Arthropods ?

A: Arthropod are the largest phylum in animal kingdom.

Q: Where do Petromyzon and ammocoetes live?

A: Biodiversity is the diversity in living organisms that exists in a particular region or area. It…

Q: How do ctenophores swim, and how do they obtain food?

A: Ctenophores comprise a phylum of invertebrates that survive in the marine waters worldwide. It is…

Q: How do giant tube worms receive their nutrition?

A: Giant tube worm is a completely marine invertebrate located under the phylum annelida.  It has a…

Q: . In what ways are arthropods important?

A: A large group of invertebrate animals is Arthropods. Arthropods include insects, spiders, crabs,…

Q: How do chaetognaths feed?

A: The word chaetognaths are derived from the Greek word chaite, long flowering hair, + gnathos, jaws.…

Q: How do animals with pseudocoelom digest their food?

A: The pseudocoelom is a fluid-filled body cavity lying inside the external body wall  that bathes the…

Q: What are the classes into which the phylum Echinodermata is divided?

A: Echinoderms are the marine organisms that belong to the kingdom Animalia. They are triploblastic…

Q: What are zoospores?

A: Motile spore that is asexual and uses its flagella for its locomotion is known as zoospores.Zoospore…

Q: What is the name of the larval stage of polychaetes?

A: Polychaetes are worm-like creatures that have an array of bristles on their many leg-like parapodia.…

Q: In what ways are cnidarians important?

A: Cnidarians is that term in which any animal belongs to the Phylum Cnidaria. Cnidarians is that term…

Q: How are nematodes and nematomorphs alike, and how are they different?

A: Ecdysozoans are a group of protostome animals that include nematodes, arthropods, and numerous…

Q: What are Bony Fishes ?

A: Fishes can also be classified into two types based on the type of skeletons ,they are Osteichthyes…

Q: What characteristics do Hemichordata share with Echinodermata, and how do the two phyla differ?

A: Introduction  Hemichordate are referred to as Half chordates, they are marine deuterostomes animals.…

Q: When do ulothrix releases zoospore?

A: Organisms belonging to the genus Ulothrix are categorized in the phylum Chlorophyta of Kingdom…

Q: What is a tongue worm, and where would it be found?

A: Tongue worms are classified as the members of Pentastomida under the Phylum Arthropoda, because they…

Q: How does a kinorhynch burrow itself into the mud. Explain the locomotory mechanism.

A: As part of the meiobenthos, Kinorhyncha is a phylum of small marine invertebrates that can be found…

Q: What are the tagmata of arachnids, and which tagmata bear appendages?

A: Arachnida is a class of phylum Arthropoda. The members in class Arachnida are called arachnids. The…

Q: What features distinguish annelids from roundworms?

A: Annelids and roundworms belong to the phylum non chordata of the animal kingdom. They do not have…

Q: Do ctenophorans reproduce by shedding sperm into water?

A: Members of phylum Ctenophora are exclusively marine. They feed on plantons, swim by using cilia. The…

Q: What is tape worm and its structure?

A: Worms can be divided into several groups, but are still technically decomposers. The first of these,…

Q: What is clasper in scoliodon?

A: Scoldion or the Dogfish belongs to the shark family.

Q: What are the major differences between Classes Actinopterygii and Chondrichthyes?

A: Chondrichthyes  Anatomical differences: It is the class of bony fish whose endoskeleton is made of…

Q: Give the economic importance of Hemidactylus?

A: Hemidactylus is a genus that includes different types of geckos. It contains about 168 species of…

Q: What do non-parasitic lampreys do?

A: Lampreys are aquatic jawless vertebrates with an eel-like appearance. They are mostly found in…

Q: How do fishes breathe?

A: Introduction  Fishes are the aquatic animals which either live on surface or in the water. Unlike…

Q: What are amphisbaenians? What morphological adaptations do they have to aid in burrowing?

A: Reptiles are the tetrapod organisms and include lizards, snakes, crocodilians, and amphisbaenians.…

Q: What are general characters in Rhizopodia?

A: As per the system of classification, living organisms can be classified into 5 broad kingdoms-…

Q: How do jelly fishes locomote?

A: Jellyfishes are marine organisms that belong to the kingdom Animalia, and there are many kinds of…

Q: What habitat is shared by micrognathozoans and gnathostomulids?

A: Members of two of the bilaterally symmetrical triploblastic phyla have acoelomate bodies. A coelom…

Q: How does a kinorhynch burrow itself into the mud, explain its locomotory mechanism

A: INTRODUCTION Kinorhyncha Kinorhyncha comes under the class Aschelminthes, they are closely related…

Q: How are gases exchanged in sponges?

A: sponges belong to the phylum porifera which comes under the kingdom animalia.

Q: In what habitats would you encounter tardigrades?

A: Tardigrades are semi-aquatic animals so they can survive in watery as well as terrestrial…

Q: What is a trilobite?

A: Introduction Trilobites as name suggest their body is consisted of three lobes and three segmenting…

Q: How do diplomonads obtain energy?

A: Fermentation: It is a process that occurs in a lack of oxygen molecules. It is a metabolic process.…

Classification of Marine Organisms

Classification is a way of categorizing organisms that enables an easy process of identification of such organisms. All living things are classified by grouping them under specific categories. The grouping is done based on the close relativeness of the organisms. The classification tool requires knowledge of characteristics, differences, and similarities between different organisms.