Faster access than browser!
19 relations: Animal, Bone, Cartilage, Chordate, Class (biology), Coleoidea, Cuttlefish, Echinoderm, Evolution, Exoskeleton, Hydrostatic skeleton, Mineralized tissues, Mollusca, Notochord, Phylum, Skeleton, Sponge, Sponge spicule, Spongin.
Animal
Animals are multicellular eukaryotic organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia.
New!!: Endoskeleton and Animal · See more »
Bone
A bone is a rigid organ that constitutes part of the vertebrate skeleton.
New!!: Endoskeleton and Bone · See more »
Cartilage
Cartilage is a resilient and smooth elastic tissue, a rubber-like padding that covers and protects the ends of long bones at the joints, and is a structural component of the rib cage, the ear, the nose, the bronchial tubes, the intervertebral discs, and many other body components.
New!!: Endoskeleton and Cartilage · See more »
Chordate
A chordate is an animal belonging to the phylum Chordata; chordates possess a notochord, a hollow dorsal nerve cord, pharyngeal slits, an endostyle, and a post-anal tail, for at least some period of their life cycle.
New!!: Endoskeleton and Chordate · See more »
Class (biology)
In biological classification, class (classis) is a taxonomic rank, as well as a taxonomic unit, a taxon, in that rank.
New!!: Endoskeleton and Class (biology) · See more »
Coleoidea
Subclass Coleoidea, or Dibranchiata, is the grouping of cephalopods containing all the various taxa popularly thought of as "soft-bodied" or "shell-less," i.e., octopus, squid and cuttlefish.
New!!: Endoskeleton and Coleoidea · See more »
Cuttlefish
Cuttlefish or cuttles are marine animals of the order Sepiida. They belong to the class Cephalopoda, which also includes squid, octopuses, and nautiluses. Cuttlefish have a unique internal shell, the cuttlebone. Despite their name, cuttlefish are not fish but molluscs. Cuttlefish have large, W-shaped pupils, eight arms, and two tentacles furnished with denticulated suckers, with which they secure their prey. They generally range in size from, with the largest species, Sepia apama, reaching in mantle length and over in mass. Cuttlefish eat small molluscs, crabs, shrimp, fish, octopus, worms, and other cuttlefish. Their predators include dolphins, sharks, fish, seals, seabirds, and other cuttlefish. The average life expectancy of a cuttlefish is about one to two years. Recent studies indicate cuttlefish are among the most intelligent invertebrates. (television program) NOVA, PBS, April 3, 2007. Cuttlefish also have one of the largest brain-to-body size ratios of all invertebrates. The 'cuttle' in 'cuttlefish' comes from the Old English name for the species, cudele, which may be cognate with the Old Norse koddi ('cushion') and the Middle Low German Kudel ('rag'). The Greco-Roman world valued the cuttlefish as a source of the unique brown pigment the creature releases from its siphon when it is alarmed. The word for it in both Greek and Latin, sepia, now refers to the reddish-brown color sepia in English.
New!!: Endoskeleton and Cuttlefish · See more »
Echinoderm
Echinoderm is the common name given to any member of the phylum Echinodermata (from Ancient Greek, ἐχῖνος, echinos – "hedgehog" and δέρμα, derma – "skin") of marine animals.
New!!: Endoskeleton and Echinoderm · See more »
Evolution
Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.
New!!: Endoskeleton and Evolution · See more »
Exoskeleton
An exoskeleton (from Greek έξω, éxō "outer" and σκελετός, skeletós "skeleton") is the external skeleton that supports and protects an animal's body, in contrast to the internal skeleton (endoskeleton) of, for example, a human.
New!!: Endoskeleton and Exoskeleton · See more »
Hydrostatic skeleton
A hydrostatic skeleton, or hydroskeleton, is a skeleton supported by fluid pressure.
New!!: Endoskeleton and Hydrostatic skeleton · See more »
Mineralized tissues
Mineralized tissues are biological tissues that incorporate minerals into soft matrices.
New!!: Endoskeleton and Mineralized tissues · See more »
Mollusca
Mollusca is a large phylum of invertebrate animals whose members are known as molluscs or mollusksThe formerly dominant spelling mollusk is still used in the U.S. — see the reasons given in Gary Rosenberg's.
New!!: Endoskeleton and Mollusca · See more »
Notochord
In anatomy, the notochord is a flexible rod made out of a material similar to cartilage.
New!!: Endoskeleton and Notochord · See more »
Phylum
In biology, a phylum (plural: phyla) is a level of classification or taxonomic rank below Kingdom and above Class.
New!!: Endoskeleton and Phylum · See more »
Skeleton
The skeleton is the body part that forms the supporting structure of an organism.
New!!: Endoskeleton and Skeleton · See more »
Sponge
Sponges, the members of the phylum Porifera (meaning "pore bearer"), are a basal Metazoa clade as sister of the Diploblasts.
New!!: Endoskeleton and Sponge · See more »
Sponge spicule
Spicules are structural elements found in most sponges.
New!!: Endoskeleton and Sponge spicule · See more »
Spongin
Spongin, a modified type of collagen protein, forms the fibrous skeleton of most organisms among the phylum Porifera, the sponges.
New!!: Endoskeleton and Spongin · See more »
Redirects here:
Endoskeletal, Internal skeleton.
