THE ANIMAL KINGDOM

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THE ANIMAL KINGDOM

• VERTEBRATES Animals with true backbones (PHYLUM
  CHORDATA)

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Kingdom Animalia

• All vertebrates have bilateral symmetry
• All vertebrates are sexual

• Multicellular with true tissues
• Specialized eukaryotic cells
• Muscular/nervous systems unique to animals
• Have their own means of locomotion
• Consumers- ingest food
• 1,326,239 classified species
• 9,812,298 total species

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Fish

• Aquatic/marine
• Fins- Projections that allow for turning and
  balance
• Swim Bladder- Sac-like organ that holds air for
  floatation
• Gills- Remove oxygen from water
• Two-chambered heart
• External fertilization

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Class Osteichthyes (Pisces) Bony fish

• Catfish Red snapper

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Giant Asian catfish
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Class Chondrichthyes Cartilagenous fish

• Great white shark

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Class Chondrichthyes Cartilagenous fish

• Skate
• Sting ray

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Class Agnatha

• Jawless fish
• Many parasitic

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Class Amphibia

• Smooth moist skin
• Mucus secreting- Chemical defense
• Three chambered heart
• Some skin breathing
• Two life stages water and land
• Born with gills
• Develop lungs later in life
• External fertilization

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Class Amphibia

• Poison dart frog
• Example Warning coloration
• Marble Salamander

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Class Reptilia

• Dry, scaly skin
• Many have claws and fangs (mechanical defense)
• Amniotic egg- soft, leathery shell
• Three chambered heart
• Internal fertilization

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Class Reptilia

• Left- Coral snake
• Example Warning coloration
• Right- Scarlet king snake
• Example Mimicry

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Class Reptilia

• Alligator
• Crocodile

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Giant Croc found in New Orleans after hurricane
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Class Reptilia

• Turtles

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Class Aves

• Covered with feathers
• Feathers serve as insulation/flight
• Hollow bones
• Beaks are an adaptation to food sources
• Hard, calcium-enriched shell
• Four chambered heart
• Internal fertilization

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Class Aves

• Bald eagle
• Gray heron

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Class Aves

• Ostrich
• Penguins

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Class Mammalia

• Covered in fur
• Females produce milk for the young
• Parental care for young
• Internal fertilization

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Class Mammalia

• Order Monotremata Egg-laying mammals
• Duck-billed platypus
• Spiny anteater

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Class Mammalia

• Order Marsupials Pouch mammals
• Young born underdeveloped
• Finish developing in pouch
• Kangaroos
• Koalas

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Class Mammalia

• Order Marsupials
• Opossum
• Wombat

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Class Mammalia

• Order Marsupials
• Tasmanian devil

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Class Mammalia

• Order Placentals
• Young fully develop inside the mother in a
  sac-like organ called the placenta
• Dolphins
• Use echolocation to see at night
• Humpback whales
• Baleen- Device in a whales mouth used to filter
  food parties

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Class Mammalia

• Order Placentals
• Armadillo
• Grizzly bear

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Class Mammalia

• Order Placental
• Bats
• Bats use echolocation to see also

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Class Mammalia

• Arctic mammals
• Example Convergent evolution
• Lion
• Example Camouflage