Marine Biology Review from Exam 2
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- Platyhelminthes
- phylum including flatworms
- thecae
- plates of dinoflagellate cell wall
- Spartina
- most important marsh grass genus; cordgrass
- Prymnesiophyta
- phylum of cocoolithophores
- Pyrrhphyta
- phylum of dinoflagellates
- Macrocystis
- species of brown algae that may reach 100 m
- fucoxanthin
- pigment found in phaetphytes
- Pogonopohora
- phylum of deep-sea tube worms
- Rhodophyta
- group including red algae
- Pfiesteria piscicida
- "phantom ambush dinoflagellate"
- Ceratium
- common local dinoflagellate genus
- Mullusca
- phylum including snails, clams, octopuses, etc.
- Fucus
- genus of brown algae including rockweed
- Porifera
- phylum of sponges
- Ulva lactuca
- sea lettuce
- Penaeus
- common shrimp group
- zoea larvae
- larval stage common to shrimp and crabs
- Thalassia
- turtle grass
- Vestimentifera
- specialized pgonophorans associated with "black smoker" hydrothermal vents
- Porphyra
- genus of purple lavar
- Rotifera
- phylum that is important in the interstitial community
- Nemertea
- phylum including ribbon/proboscis worms
- frustule
- silica shell of diatoms
- auxospore
- mode of sexual reproduction of diatoms
- Pycnogonida
- sea spiders
- carrageenan
- harvested from red algae and used to stabilize emulsions
- Crustacea
- subphylum of arthropods including important marine groups such as copepods, cirripeds, etc.
- hydromedusa
- medusa body plan of hydrozoans
- Uca
- fiddler crab
- amphipods
- beach fleas
- copepods
- tiny marine zooplankton; enlarged antennae used for locomotion
- Anasakis
- marine nematode that can parasitize humans
- Vellia
- neuston colonial siphonphores
- chlorophyta
- group including green algae
- Chelicerata
- subphylum of arthropods including merostomatans, related to trilobites and eurypterids
- Anthozoa
- class including anemones, corals, sea pens, and sea fans; polyp stage dominant
- Zostera
- eel grass
- Uniramia
- subphylum of arthropods including insects, millipedes, and centepedes
- pteropods
- "sea butterflies"
- nematocysts
- stinging organelle in cnidarians
- Hydrozoa
- class including hyroids; both polyp and medusa stages
- Riftia
- genus of vestimenterans
- decapods
- shrimp, lobsters, crawfish, crabs; ten "walking" legs on cephalothorax
- Brevoortia patronus
- "pogy" of menhaden; #1 commercial fish
- Rhizophora mangle
- mangrove found on US coast
- agar
- harvested from red algae and used as a base for cosmetics and laboratory medium
- choanocytes
- collar cells of poiferans
- luciferans
- bioluminescent chemicals
- Physalia
- Portuguese man-o-war
- Phaetophyta
- group including brown algae, kelps, and rockweeds
- megalops larvae
- crab larval stage after zoea
- coloblasts
- sticky cells of comb jellies
- cirripeds
- barnacles
- Cnidaria
- phylum of hydras, jellyfish, etc.
- siphonophores
- colonia hydroids
- zooxanthelle
- dinoflagellates common as chemosynthetic (nitrogen and carbon-fixing) symbiotes
- Avicennia germinans
- Black mangrove; found in Louisiana
- Gymnodinium breve
- dinoflagellate with brevetoxins that cause neurotoxic shellfish poisoning
- hermatypic corals
- reef-building corals
- Scyphozoa
- class including jellyfish; medusa stage dominant
- cypris larvae
- barnacle larval stage after nauplius
- vellum
- "shelf" structure of hydromedusa
- epicone and hypocone
- two halves of dinoflagellate cell wal
- centric and penante
- two basic diatom shapes
- cnidocytes
- stinging cells in cnidarians
- nauplius larvae
- larval stage common to crustaceans
- Sargassum
- warm-water genus of brown algae that forms the base of a pseudopelagic community
- Arthropoda
- largest and most diverse animal phylum
- Carukia barnesi
- Irukandjii jellyfish
- Bacillariophyta
- phylum of diatoms
- Ctenophora
- phylum including comb jellies
- Chironex fleckeri
- box jellyfish
- yellow-fin tuna
- #1 commercial food fish
- Annelida
- phylum including segmented worms
- epitheca and hypotehca
- two halves of diatom frustule
- Janthina
- neustonic snail
- Silcoflagellata
- phylum of golden-brown algae
- okadaic acid
- poison produced by multiple species of dinoflagellate that causes diarrhetic shellfish poisoning
- Noctiluca
- genus of dinoflagellate with biolumenecence
- Pseudo-nitzchia pungens
- pennate diatom that produces domoic acid that causes amnesic shellfish poisoning