Virtual Animal Kingdom
Cnidarians
Porifera
Common Name - Green Finger Sponge
Scientific Name - Itrochsta birotulata
Intervertibrate
Habitat - Hard surfaces on the ocean floor
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No nervous system
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No organs
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Length of branches is up to 50 cm
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Asymetrical
Common Name - Blue button Jellyfish
Scientific Name - Porpita porpita
Intervertibrate
Habitat - Flots in the water
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No true organs
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3-7 cm Long
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Harmless to humans
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Radial Symetry
Platyhelminthes
Common Name - Blue Pseudoceros Flatworm
Scientific Name - Pseudoceros bifurcus
Intervertibrate
Habitat - Free Living Marine
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Lacks a respitory system
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No circulitory system
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No skeleton
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Bilateral Symetry
Arthropods
Mollusks
Echinoderms
Common Name - Ulysses Butterfly
Scientific Name - Papilio Ulysses
Intervertibrate
Habitat - Tropical Rainforests
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Have an exoskeleton
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Open circulitory system
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Males are attracted to most blue objects, mistaking them for females
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Bilateral Symetry
Common Name - Burrowing Clam
Scientific Name - Tridacna crocea
Intervertibrate
Habitat - Ocean Floor
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About 110,000 species known to science
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Body has more then two cell layers
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Open circulitory system
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Bilateral Symetry
Common Name - Royal Starfish
Scientific Name - Astpecten articulatus
Intervertibrate
Habitat - Marine Environments
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Internal Skeleton
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Non-centralized nervous systems
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Eats its prey whole
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Radial Symetry
Annelids
Nematoda
Common Name - Christmas Tree Worm
Scientific Name-Spirobranchus giganteus
Intervetibrate
Habitat - Coral Reefs Tropical Waters
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Bodies segmented
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Closed circulitory system
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Not dangerous to humans
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Bilateral symetry
Common Name - Trichina Worm
Scientific Name - Trichinella spiralis
Intervertibrate
Habitat - Nearly every Habitat
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No circulitory system
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Parasitic
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Sometimes refered to as Pork-worm
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Bilateral symetry