Invertebrates

Did you know?

• More than 90 percent of all living animal

species are invertebrates. Worldwide in
distribution, they include animals as
diverse as sea stars, sea urchins, 
earthworms, sponges, jellyfish,  lobsters
, crabs, insects, spiders, snails, clams, and 
squid.
But first… Did you
remember what is an
invertebrate?
• An invertebrate is an animal
that does not have a
backbone or skeleton.
 They are
multicellular. All
They do not have the cells have
All a backbone. different
responsibilities in
invertebrates keeping the
animal alive.
are different,
but all of them They reproduce
by two
share four (4) They have no cell
reproductive
cells, or gametes,
characteristics. walls, like all
other animals.
coming together
to produce a new
organism of their
species.
 • Arthropods
• Mollusk
• Worms
• Cnidarians
• Echinoderms
• Sponges

Info taken from

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=dWMYZMWe9aA

Types of invertebrates:
• They have an external skeleton called the
exoskeleton. (It is not a skeleton as the
vertebrates' animals) This exoskeleton
helps to protect the soft parts of their
body.
They have many
and jointed legs to
move around.
Example: Insects
(6), Arachnids (8),
crustaceans (10),
and myriapods
(10+).

Some of them live

in the land, water
or they can even
fly.
Mollusks are different from
one another, but as
arthropods they share some
characteristics.

• Their bodies are soft

(Some mollusks have a
shell to protect their body)
• Mollusks are leapers
animals
• Mollusks are classified in:
Gastropods, Cephalopods,
and Bivalve.
Worms!

• They have long and soft bodies.

• Their skin is moist.
• They breathe through their
skin.
• They do not have legs
• There are some worms that live
on earth and some of them live
in water.
 • They are marine animals.

• They are divided into two

groups: Jellyfish and Polyp.

• Jellyfish are almost

transparent and they have a
gelatinous body.

• Polyp animals live on reefs or

attach themselves onto rocks
using their suckers.

• They have tentacles and

Cnidarians! mouths.
Echinoderms.
• They are marine animals
too.

• They move very slowly

on the seabed using
their tiny tube feet
 • They have bodies full of pores
Sponges
• There are some sponges soft,
but there are too sponges
hard.

• They only live in seas and

oceans.

• They attach themselves onto

rocks and reefs

• They cannot swim

Head shapes
Body
Legs or hands