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Chapter 18
The Evolution of Animal Diversity
What
Am I?
◦ Of some 1.5 million species of organisms known
to science
 Over two-thirds are animals
◦ Humans have a long history of studying animal
diversity
 But classifying an animal isn’t always easy
◦ Imagine you were the first person to
encounter the animal pictured here
 With all of its varying characteristics,
what would you think it is?
◦ Biologists often encounter classification
problems
 When evolution creates organisms with
similar characteristics
A Tasmanian tiger, 1928
What is an animal?
◦ Animals are eukaryotic, multicellular heterotrophs
 That ingest their food
Figure 18.1A
ANIMAL EVOLUTION AND
DIVERSITY
◦ Animal development
◦ May include a blastula, gastrula, and larval
stage
Key
Haploid (n)
Sperm
Diploid (2n)
2
1
Meiosis
Adult
8
Egg
Zygote
(fertilized egg)
3
Eight-cell stage
Metamorphosis
4
Blastula
(cross section)
Digestive tract
Ectoderm
Larva
7
Endoderm
Figure 18.1B
Internal sac
5
Early gastrula
(cross section)
6
Future
Later gastrula mesoderm
(cross section)
The ancestor of animals was probably a
colonial, flagellated protist
◦ Cells in these protists
 Gradually became more specialized and layered
Somatic
cells
Digestive
cavity
Reproductive
cells
1
Colonial protist,
an aggregate
of identical cells
Figure 18.2A
2
Hollow sphere
of unspecialized
cells (shown in
cross section)
3
Beginning of cell
specialization
(cross section)
4
Infolding
(cross section)
5
Gastrula-like
“proto-animal”
(cross section)
◦ Animal diversity exploded during the
Cambrian period
Figure 18.2B
Animals can be characterized by basic
features of their “body plan”
◦ Animal body plans may vary in
symmetry
Top
Dorsal surface
Anterior
end
Posterior
end
Ventral surface
Figure 18.3A
Bottom
Tissue-filled region
(from mesoderm)
 Vary in body cavity
Body covering
(from ectoderm)
Digestive tract
(from endoderm)
Body covering
(from ectoderm)
Muscle layer
(from mesoderm)
Digestive tract
(from endoderm)
Pseudocoelom
Coelom
Figure 18.3B–D
Digestive tract
(from endoderm)
Body covering
(from ectoderm)
Tissue layer
lining coelom
and suspending
internal organs
(from mesoderm)
 Development as either protostomes or
deuterostomes
 Together these animals show bilateral
symmetry and three germ layers
 Distinction between each is found in
embryonic development
Deuterostomes
Figure 18.4
Eumetazoans
True tissues
Ancestral
colonial protist
Nematodes
Arthropods
Annelids
Protostomes
Bilaterians
Bilateral symmetry
Radial symmetry
No true tissues
Molluscs
Flatworms
Chordates
Echinoderms
Cnidarians
Sponges
The body plans of animals can be used to
build phylogenetic trees
◦ One hypothesis of animal phylogeny is
based on morphological comparisons
Invertebrates
Sponges have a relatively simple, porous
body
◦ Sponges, phylum Porifera
 Are the simplest animals and have no true
tissues
Figure 18.5A–C
INVERTEBRATES
◦ Flagellated choanocytes

Filter food from the water passing through the
porous body
Pores
Choanocyte
Amoebocyte
Skeletal
fiber
Central
cavity
Figure 18.5D
Choanocyte
in contact
with an
amoebocyte
Water
flow
Flagella
Cnidarians are radial animals with tentacles
and stinging cells
◦ Cnidarians, phylum Cnidaria
 Have true tissues and radial symmetry
◦ Their two body forms are
 Polyps, such as hydra
 Medusae, the jellies
Figure 18.6A–C
◦ They have a gastrovascular cavity
 And cnidocytes on tentacles that sting
prey
Capsule
(nematocyst)
Coiled
thread
Tentacle
“Trigger”
Discharge
of thread
Prey
Cnidocyte
Figure 18.6D
Flatworms are the simplest bilateral animals
◦ Flatworms, phylum Platyhelminthes
 Are bilateral animals with no body cavity
◦ A planarian has a gastrovascular cavity
 And a simple nervous system
Gastrovascular
cavity
Nerve cords
Planaria
Mouth
Eyespots
Nervous
tissue
clusters
Figure 18.7A
Bilateral symmetry
◦ Flukes and tapeworms
 Are parasitic flatworms with complex life cycles
Figure 18.7B
Colorized SEM 80
Units with
reproductive
structures
Hooks
Sucker
Scolex
(anterior
end)
Nematodes have a pseudocoelom and a
complete digestive tract
◦ Nematodes, phylum Nematoda
 Have a pseudocoelom and a complete digestive tract
 Are covered by a protective cuticle
◦ Many nematodes are free-living
 And others are plant or animal parasites
Muscle tissue
Figure18.8A, B
LM 350
Mouth
Colorized SEM 400
Trichinella juvenile
Diverse molluscs are variations on a common body plan
◦ All molluscs have a muscular foot and a mantle
 Which may secrete a shell that encloses the visceral mass
◦ Many mollusks
◦ Feed with a rasping radula
Visceral mass
Coelom
Heart
Kidney
Mantle
Reproductive
organs
Digestive
tract
Shell
Digestive tract
Mantle
cavity
Radula
Anus
Gill
Mouth
Foot
Figure 18.9A
Nerve
cords
Radula
Mouth
Gastropods
◦ Gastropods are the largest group of molluscs
 And include the snails and slugs
Figure 18.9B, C
Bivalves
◦ The bivalves have shells divided into two halves
 And include clams, oysters, mussels, and
scallops
Figure 18.9D
Cephalopods
◦ Cephalopods are adapted to be agile predators
 And include squids, cuttlefish and octopuses
Figure 18.9E, F
Annelids are segmented worms
◦ The segmented bodies of phylum Annelida
 Give them added mobility for swimming and
burrowing
Earthworms
and Their Relatives
◦ Earthworms
 Eat their way through soil
 Have a closed circulatory system
Anus
Circular
muscle
Epidermis
Segment
wall
Longitudinal
muscle
Dorsal
vessel
Mucus-secreting
organ
Dorsal Coelom
vessel
Brain
Segment wall
(partition
between
segments)
Excretory
organ
Bristles Intestine
Excretory
organ
Digestive
tract
Nerve cord
Bristles
Ventral vessel
Segment
wall
Blood vessels
Mouth
Figure 18.10A
Nerve cord
Pumping segmental vessels
Giant
Australian
earthworm
Polychaetes
 Form the largest group of annelids
 Search for prey on the seafloor or live in
tubes and filter food particles
Figure 18.10B, C
Leeches
◦ Most leeches
 Are free-living carnivores, but some suck blood
Figurer 18.10D
Arthropods are segmented animals with
jointed appendages and an exoskeleton
◦ The diversity and success of arthropods is
largely related to their segmentation,
exoskeleton, and jointed appendages
Cephalothorax Abdomen
Antennae
(sensory
reception)
Thorax
Head
Swimming
appendages
Figure 18.11A
Walking legs
Pincer (defense)
Mouthparts (feeding)
Chelicerates
◦ Chelicerates include
Colorized SEM 900
 Horseshoe crabs
 Arachnids, such as spiders, scorpions, mites, and
ticks
A black widow spider (about
1 cm wide)
A scorpion (about 8 cm long)
Figure 18.11B, C
A dust mite (about 420
µm long)
Millipedes
and Centipedes
◦ Millipedes and centipedes
 Are identified by the number of jointed legs per
body segment
Figure 18.11D
Crustaceans
◦ The crustaceans
 Are nearly all aquatic
 Include crabs, shrimps, and barnacles
Figure 18.11E
Insects are the most diverse group of
organisms
◦ Insects have a three-part body consisting of
 Head, thorax, and abdomen
 Three sets of legs
 Wings (most, but not all insects)
◦ Many insects undergo
 Incomplete or complete metamorphosis
A.
Order Orthoptera
◦ The order orthoptera includes
 Grasshoppers, crickets, katydids, and
locusts
Head
Antenna
Thorax
Abdomen
Forewing
Eye
Mouthparts
Figure 18.12A
Hindwing
B.
Order Odonata
◦ The order odonata includes
◦ Dragonflies and damselflies
Figure 18.12B
C.
Order Hemiptera
◦ The order hemiptera includes
 Bedbugs, plant bugs, stinkbugs, and
water striders
Figure 18.12C
D.
Order Coleoptera
◦ The order coleoptera includes
 Beetles
Figure 18.12D
E.
Order Lepidoptera
◦ The order lepidoptera includes
◦ Moths and butter flies
Figure 18.12E
F.
Order Diptera
◦ The order Diptera includes
 Flies, fruit flies, houseflies, gnats, and
mosquitoes
Haltere
Figure 18.12F
G.
Order Hymenoptera
◦ The order hymenoptera includes
 Ants, bees, and wasps
Figure 18.12G
Echinoderms have spiny skin, an
endoskeleton, and a water vascular system
for movement
◦ Echinoderms, phylum Echinodermata
 Includes organisms such as sea stars and sea
urchins
 Are radially symmetrical as adults
Tube foot
Tube foot
Figure 18.13B, C
Spine
◦ The water vascular system
 Has suction cup–like tube feet used for respiration
and locomotion
Anus
Spines
Stomach
Tube feet
Canals
Figure 18.13A
Our own phylum, Chordata, is
distinguished by four features:
◦ The simplest chordates are tunicates and
lancelets
 Marine invertebrates that use their
pharyngeal slits for suspension feeding
Excurrent
siphon
Dorsal, hollow
nerve cord
Post-anal tail
Head
Pharyngeal
slits
Mouth
Notochord
Mouth
Muscle
segments
Notochord
Pharynx
Pharyngeal
slits
Digestive tract
Water exit
Adult
(about 3 cm high)
Figure 18.14A, B
Larva
Segmental
Anus
muscles
Dorsal,
hollow
nerve cord
Post-anal
tail
Derived characters define the major clades of
chordates
Chordates
Craniates
Vertebrates
Jawed vertebrates
Mammals
Reptiles
Amphibians
Lobe-fins
Ray-finned fishes
Tetrapods
Amniotes
Sharks, rays
Lampreys
Hagfishes
Lancelets
A chordate phylogenetic tree
Is based on a
sequence
of derived
characters
Tunicates
◦

Amniotic egg
Legs
Lobed fins
Lungs or lung derivatives
Jaws
Vertebral column
Head
Figure 18.15
Brain
Ancestral chordate
VERTEBRATES
Milk
◦ Most chordates are vertebrates
 With a head and a backbone made of
vertebrae
Lampreys are vertebrates that lack hinged
jaws
◦ Lampreys lack hinged jaws and paired fins
Figure 18.16A
◦ Most vertebrates have hinged jaws
 Which may have evolved from skeletal
supports of the gill slits
Gill
slits
Skeletal
rods
Skull
Mouth
Figure 18.16B
Jawed vertebrates with gills and paired
fins include sharks, ray-finned fishes, and
lobe-fins
◦ Three lineages of jawed vertebrates
with gills and paired fins
 Are commonly called fishes
Chondrichthyans
◦ Chondrichthyans
 Have a flexible skeleton made of cartilage
 Include sharks and rays
Figure 18.17A
Ray-finned
Fishes (e.g. Atlantic herring,
Ocean sunfish)
◦ The ray-finned fishes have
 A skeleton reinforced with a hard matrix of
calcium phosphate
 Operculi that move water over the gills
Bony skeleton
 A buoyant swim
Dorsal fin
Gills
bladder
Operculum
Pectoral fin Heart
Rainbow trout,
a ray-fin
Figure 18.17B
Anal fin
Swim bladder
Pelvic fin
Lobe-fins
(e.g. coelacanths, lungfish)
◦ The lobe-fin fishes
 Have muscular fins supported by bones
Figure 18.17C
Amphibians were the first
tetrapods—ver tebrates with two pairs of
limbs
◦ Amphibians
 Were the first tetrapods with limbs allowing
movement on land
Bones
supporting
gills
Figure 18.18A
Tetrapod
limb
skeleton
 Include frogs, toads, salamanders, and caecilians
Figure 18.18B–D
 Most amphibian embryos and larvae still
must develop in water
Reptiles are amniotes—tetrapods with a
terrestrially adapted egg
◦ Terrestrial adaptations of reptiles include
 Waterproof scales
 A shelled, amniotic egg
Figure 18.19A, B
◦ Living reptiles other than birds are ectothermic
◦ Dinosaurs, the most diverse reptiles to inhabit
land
 Included some of the largest animals ever to inhabit
land
 May have been endothermic, producing their own
body heat
Figure 18.19C
Birds are feathered reptiles with adaptations
for flight
◦ Birds evolved from
 A lineage of small, two-legged dinosaurs called
theropods
Wing claw
(like dinosaur)
Figure 18.20A
Teeth
(like dinosaur)
Long tail with
many vertebrae Feathers
(like dinosaur)
◦ Birds are reptiles that have
 Wings, feathers, endothermic metabolism, and
many other adaptations related to flight
Figure 18.20B
◦ Flight ability is typical of birds
 But there are a few flightless species
Figure 18.20C
Mammals are amniotes that have hair and
produce milk
◦ Mammals are endothermic amniotes with
 Hair, which insulates their bodies
 Mammary glands, which produce milk
Mammals
◦ Monotremes lay eggs
Figure 18.21A
•Monotremes lay eggs
◦
The embryos of marsupials and eutherians are
nurtured by the placenta within the uterus
◦ Marsupial offspring complete development attached to
the mother’s nipple, usually inside a pouch
Figure 18.21B
◦ Eutherians, placental mammals
 Complete development before birth
Figure 18.21C
ANIMAL PHYLOGENY AND DIVERSITY REVISITED
An animal phylogenetic tree is a work in
progress
◦ Molecular-based phylogenetic trees
Deuterostomes
Arthropods
Nematodes
Annelids
Molluscs
Flatworms
Chordates
Echinoderms
Cnidarians
Sponges
 Distinguish two protostome clades: the
lophotrochozoans and the ecdysozoans
Ecdysozoans
Lophotrochozoans
Bilaterians
Radial symmetry
Bilateral symmetry
Eumetazoans
No true tissues
True tissues
Figure 18.22
Ancestral
colonial protist
Humans threaten animal diversity by introducing
non-native species
◦ Introduced species
 Are threatening Australia’s native animals
Figure 18.23A-D
CONNECTION