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PHYLUM - CTENOPHORA

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❇️PHYLUM - CTENOPHORA❇️

👉They are commonly known as "Sea-gooseberries" or "Comb-jellies" or "Sea-walnuts

👉Bioluminescence (The property of a living organism to emit light) is well marked

👉 They are radially symmetrial,
Diploblastic organism with tissue grade body organisation

👉They are exclusively marine

👉Digestion is both extracellular and intracelluar

👉Locomotion takes place by the presence of 8 ciliary comb plates on the body surface.

👉Sexes are not separate. Reproduction takes place only by sexual means. Fertilization is external.
👉Development is of indirect type. Life cycle involves a free living Cydippid larval stage.
e.g. 1. Pleurobrachia
        2. Ctenoplana

❇️PHYLUM - PLATYHELMINTHES❇️

👉They have dorsoventrally flattened body hence are called flat worms.

👉These are mostly endoparasites found in animals including human being but some are Free living (aquatic).

👉Excretion occurs through specialised cells called flame cells or Solenocytes(Protonephridia).

👉They also help in osmoregulation

👉Locomotary organs are absent in these animals but adhesive organs like suckers, hooks etc are present in
parasitic form.
👉Body is Bilaterally symmetrical and body organisation is of organ /organ system grade.

👉Body is Triploblastic

👉They are Bisexual.

👉Reproductive system is complex and well developed. Fertilization is internal.

👉Development indirect through many larva stages

👉Some members like Planaria possess high regeneration capacity

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