Classification of Kingdom Animalia

By: Sh’kia Roebuck

Porifera-sponges characteristics

● These are pore-bearing multicellular animals.

● The body has no organs.
● They exhibit holozoic nutrition.
● The body is radially symmetrical.
● They can regenerate their lost parts.
Cnidaria-jellyfish, sea anemones, coral characteristics

❏ venomous cells
❏ used to stun,
❏ Capture
❏ hold prey
Platyhelminthes-flatworms characteristics

● They are triploblastic, acoelomate, and bilaterally symmetrical.

● They may be free-living or parasites.
● The body has a soft covering with or without cilia.
● Their body is dorsoventrally flattened without any segments and appears like a leaf.
Nematoda-roundworms characteristics

● Their body is bilaterally symmetrical and triploblastic.

● They are cylindrical in shape.
● They exhibit tissue level organization.
● Their body has a cavity or pseudocoelom.
● The alimentary canal is distinct, with the mouth and the anus.
● They are sexually dimorphic.
Annelida-earthworms characteristics

❏ vertebrate animals that are characterized by the possession of a body cavity (or
coelom),
❏ movable bristles (or setae),
❏ and a body divided into segments by transverse rings
Mollusca-shelled animals characteristics

● They are mostly found in marine and freshwater. ...

● They exhibit organ system level of organization.
● Their body has a cavity.
● The body is divided into head, visceral mass, muscular foot and mantle.
● The head comprises of tentacles and compound eyes.
● The body is covered by a calcareous shell.
Arthropoda-insects, spiders characteristics,

❏ secreted by the underlying epidermis

❏ presence of a jointed skeletal covering composed of chitin
Chordata-vertebrates ( and others) characteristics

❏ Notochord,
❏ dorsal hollow nerve cord
❏ pharyngeal slits
❏ post-anal tail