Taxonomy Kingdom Animalia

Demospongiae
Porifera means organisms with holes. They are commonly known as
Sponges, Sponges (Porifera) have a primitive cellular level of
organization and lack tissues and symmetry. They depend on a flow of
water through the body to as their movement is very difficult to detect.
As their movement is very difficult to detect, and they always attach to
rocks, sponges were once thought to be aquatic plants! Sponges feed
through a filter system.
and they always attach to rocks, sponges were once thought to be
Domain: Eukaryote aquatic
Order:plants! Sponges
Haplosclerida.
Kingdom: Animalia feed through
Family: a filter system. acquire food.
Chalinidae
Phylum: Porifera Genus: Haliclona
Class: Demospongiae Species: anonyma.

Coelenterate (Cnidaria)

Actiniaria
Cnidarians are also simple aquatic animals like sponges, but their
possession of a nerve system makes them more complex than sponges.
Jellyfish, hydras, sea anemones, and corals make up the four classes of
cnidarians. All cnidarians have tentacles around their mouths. Each
tentacle is covered with sting cells, and each sting cell has a highly
sensitive trigger.
When a fish touches a trigger, a harpoon-like thread fires out and injects
toxin into the doomed victim. So, now you know why you feel so
uncomfortable when a jellyfish stings you!

Domain: Eukaryote Order: Actiniaria

Kingdom: Animalia Family: Hormathiidae
Phylum: Cnidaria Genus: Nematostella
Class: Anthozoa Species: Endomyaria
 It has different types of worms, Phylum
Platyhelminthes is composed of the flatworms:
acoelomate organisms that include many free-
living and parasitic forms. Most of the flatworms
are classified in the superphylum
Lophotrochozoa, which also includes the
mollusks and annelids.

The Platyhelminthes consist of two lineages: The Catenulida and the Rhabditophora. The Catenulida, or “chain
worms” is a small clade of just over 100 species. Any of the phylum Platyhelminthes, a group of soft-bodied,
usually much flattened invertebrates.

Domain: Eukaryote Order: Polycladia

Kingdom: Animalia Family: Pseudocerotidae
Phylum: Platyhelminthes Genus: Pseudoceros
Class: Turbellaria Species: Pseudoceros bifurcus

Nematoda

Nematode, also called roundworm, any worm of the

phylum Nematoda. Nematodes are among the most
abundant animals on Earth. They occur as parasites in
animals and plants or as free-living forms in soil, fresh
water, marine environments, and even such unusual
places.
Roundworms (nematodes) are bilaterally symmetrical,
worm-like organisms that are surrounded by a strong,
flexible noncellular layer called a cuticle.

Their body plan is simple. The cuticle is secreted by and covers a layer of epidermal cells. Near the body wall
but under the epidermal cells are muscle cells; they run in the longitudinal direction only.

Domain: Eukaryotic
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Nematoda
Class: Adenophorea
Order: Enoplidal
Family: Enoplidae
Genus: Pseudolaimus
Species: Aphasmidia
 Arthropoda

Arthropod, (phylum Arthropoda), any member of the

phylum Arthropoda, the largest phylum in the animal
kingdom, which includes such familiar forms as
lobsters, crabs, spiders, mites, insects, centipedes, and
millipedes.
The body is usually segmented, and the segments
bear paired jointed appendages, from which the name
arthropod (“jointed feet”) is derived.
Members of the phylum have been responsible for the
most devastating plagues and famines mankind has
known. Yet other species of arthropods are essential
for our existence, directly or indirectly providing us
Phylum Annelida is a very broad phylum belonging to with food, clothing, medicines, and protection from
the kingdom Animalia. The Annelids are found in harmful organisms.
aquatic as well as terrestrial environments. These are
bilaterally symmetrical invertebrate organisms. Their
segmented body distinguishes them from any other
organism.
The annelids include earthworms, polychaete worms,
and leeches. All members of the group are to some
extent segmented, in other words, made up of segments
that are formed by subdivisions that partially transect
the body cavity.

Domain: Eukaryotic
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Anthropoda
Class: Diplopoda
Order: Polydesmida
Family: Eurymerodesmidae
Genus: Eurymerodesmus
Domain: Eukaryotic
Kingdom: Animalia Species: Narceus americanus

Phylum: Annelida
Class: Adenophorea
Order: Arhynchobdellida
Family: arhynchobdellids
Genus: Hirudo
Species: Helobdella

Most commonly found in freshwater. Some

are marine, terrestrial, and parasitic.
 Mollusca The animals belonging to the phylum Mollusca have soft-bodies, triploblastic
and bilaterally symmetrical and coelomate. The study of Mollusca is called
Malacology. They are sluggish invertebrates, with a thin fleshy envelope or
mantle covering the visceral organs.

They play a very important role in the lives of humans.

They are a source of jewelry as well as food. Natural
pearls are formed within these molluscs.
The bivalve molluscs are used as bioindicators in the
marine and freshwater environments. But few of them
such as snails and slugs are pests.

Domain: Eukaryote Order: Venerida

Kingdom: Animalia Family: Cardiidae
Phylum: Mollusca Genus: Cerastoderma
Class: Bivalvia Species: Cerastoderma edule

These are multicellular organisms with well-developed organ

systems. All the animals belonging to this phylum share the
same characteristics features. They are colourful organisms
with unique shapes. They are ecologically and geologically
very important.
The organisms belonging to the phylum Echinodermata are
exclusively marine. Till date, there have been no traces of any
terrestrial or freshwater Echinoderms.
phylum Echinodermata, characterized by a hard, spiny
covering or skin.

Domain: Eukaryote Order: Forcipulatida

Kingdom: Animalia Family: Asteriidae
Phylum: Echinodermata Genus: Asterias rubens
Class: Asteroidea Species: Asteroidea rubens
 Hemichordata Chordata

Most of the organisms belonging to this phylum

have a modified proboscis, due to which they have
got the name Acorn worms. These animals show a
few chordate characteristics but are not completely
chordates. Hence they have been given the name
Hemichordata (Half chordates).
Another notable feature of these organisms is the
threefold division of the body, with the preoral lobe,
collar, and a trunk. The collar bears the tentacles in
a few species. The trunk has the digestive and
reproductive organs.

Chordate, any member of the phylum Chordata,

which includes the vertebrates (subphylum
Vertebrata), the most highly evolved animals, as
well as two other subphyla—the tunicates
(subphylum Tunicata) and cephalochordates
(subphylum Cephalochordata).
Some classifications also include the phylum
Hemichordata with the chordates. Chordates are
well represented in marine, freshwater and
terrestrial habitats from the Equator to the high
Domain: Eukaryotic northern and southern latitudes.

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Hemichordata
Class: Enteropneusta
Order: Enteropneusta
Family: Harrimaniidae
Genus: Saccoglossos
Species: Enteropneusta

Domain: Eukaryotic
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Pomacentridae
Genus: Amphiprion
Species: A. percula