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    1. The document presents a dichotomous key for identifying various invertebrate organisms. 2. The key involves a series of questions that lead the user down different paths based on their answers, allowing them to narrow down the identity of an unknown specimen. 3. Figures 1-10 provide visual examples of different organisms that could be identified using the key, including an octopus, sea cucumber, damselfly larvae, and hermit crab.

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    1. The document presents a dichotomous key for identifying various invertebrate organisms. 2. The key involves a series of questions that lead the user down different paths based on their answers, allowing them to narrow down the identity of an unknown specimen. 3. Figures 1-10 provide visual examples of different organisms that could be identified using the key, including an octopus, sea cucumber, damselfly larvae, and hermit crab.

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    1. The document presents a dichotomous key for identifying various invertebrate organisms. 2. The key involves a series of questions that lead the user down different paths based on their answers, allowing them to narrow down the identity of an unknown specimen. 3. Figures 1-10 provide visual examples of different organisms that could be identified using the key, including an octopus, sea cucumber, damselfly larvae, and hermit crab.

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    BI/MS202 PROJECT 2

    (Dichotomous key)

    Name: Shyla Tosana Mani


    Id: s11184888

    Steps Diagnostic………………………………………………………………………… Specimen


    (Class, Order)
    1 a) the organism has legs……………………………………………………….. Go to 8
    b) the organism does not have legs …......................................Go to 9

    2 a) the organism has modified jaws(labium) at


    Juvenile stage……………………………………………………………………. Damselfly, Fig 8
    (Insecta, Odonata)
    b) the organism has no modified jaws………………………………… Go to 10
    3 a) the organism has 8 arm and 2 feeding tentacles……………… Metasepia pfefferi

    Fig 4 (Cephalopoda, Sepiida)


    b) the organism has 5 arms ………………………………………………….Go to 6

    4 a) the organism has endoskeleton …………………………………………….Go to 10


    b) the organism does not have exoskeleton ………………………Hermit crab, Fig 10

    (Malacostraca, Decapoda)
    5 a) the organism has two long hairy legs…………………………. Juvenile Water strider
    Fig 3 (Insecta, Hemiptera)
    b) the organism has two chelipeds……………………………………………. Go to 7

    6 a) the invertebrate has a radially symmetry body……………………….Starfish, Fig7


    ( Asteroidea, Valvatida)
    b) the organism is A-symmetrical at larval stage……………………………Go to 6
    7 a) the invertebrate has 1 large and 1 smaller claw
    In adult male …………………………………………..………………….. Fiddler crab, Fig 6

    (Malacostraca, Decapoda)
    b) both the claws are equally same size …………………………………………. Go to 4

    8 a) the invertebrate has 16 legs………………………………….. Aquatic Caterpillar, Fig 5


    (Insecta, Lepidoptera)

    b) the invertebrate has 6 legs …………………………………………………………..Go to 5

    9 a) the invertebrate has 10 short tentacles………………………………………… Go to 3


    b) the invertebrate has 8 long flexible tentacles ………………………Octopus, Fig 1
    (Cephalopoda, Octopoda)

    10 a) has several mouth along the oral arm ……………Whited spotted Jellyfish, Fig 9
    (Scyphozoa, Rhyzostomeae)

    b) the mouth is surrounded by ring of tentacles……………Pearsonothuria Sea

    Cucumber, Fig 2
    (Holothuroidea, Holthuriida)
    Fig 1

    (Anon., n.d.)
    Fig 2

    (Anon., n.d.)
    Fig 3

    (Anon., n.d.)
    Fig 4

    (Anon., n.d.)
    Fig 5

    (Anon., n.d.)
    Fig 6

    (Byres, n.d.)
    Fig 7

    (Anon., n.d.)
    Fig 8

    (Anon., n.d.)
    Fig 9

    (Anon., n.d.)
    Fig 10

    (Anon., n.d.)

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    Anon., n.d. animal diversity web. [Online]


    Available at: https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Octopus/classification/
    [Accessed 29 june 2021].

    Anon., n.d. britannica. [Online]


    Available at: https://www.britannica.com/animal/hermit-crab
    [Accessed 28 june 2021].

    Anon., n.d. bugguide. [Online]


    Available at: https://www.mdfrc.org.au/bugguide/display.asp?type=2&class=17
    [Accessed 28 JUNE 2021].

    Anon., n.d. field guide to common texas insects. [Online]


    Available at: https://texasinsects.tamu.edu/water-striders/
    [Accessed 28 june 2021].
    Anon., n.d. image du monde. [Online]
    Available at: http://www.picture-worl.org/cnidaire-nouvelle-caledonie-mastigias-papua-lesson-
    1830.html
    [Accessed 28 june 2021].

    Anon., n.d. invertebrate zoology. [Online]


    Available at: https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/iz/discover-invertebrates/pearsonothuria-
    graeffei/
    [Accessed 29 june 2021].

    Anon., n.d. missouri department of conversation. [Online]


    Available at: https://mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/field-guide/damselfly-larvae
    [Accessed 27 june 2021].

    Anon., n.d. wikipedia org. [Online]


    Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaster_typicus
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    Byres, D., n.d. [Online]


    Available at: http://web.fscj.edu/David.Byres/fiddler/uca.htm
    [Accessed 28 june 2021].

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