#phylum

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Tardigrade

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Phylum Final Round!

Magnoliophyta vs Bryophyta

Magnoliophyta

Bryophyta

Voting ended onFeb 26, 2024

For the Phylum Level Champion!

Reminder: This is the final PHYLUM round. Winner goes on to classes!

Magnoliophyta (aka angiosperms, flowering plants): A large, diverse phylum with over 300,000 known species. Two of the more well-known sub-divisions are monocots (including grains, onion-like plants, and irises and lilies) and eudicots (including most leafy trees, a wide variety of flowers such as sunflowers and roses, and many food plants from coffee to cabbages.)

Bryophyta (aka mosses): Small but mighty, and among the most ancient of land plants. 95% of all moss species are in the class Bryopsida, while Sphagnopsida contains the bog-loving peat mosses.

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Phylum Round 3

🪱 ANNELIDA vs. CNIDARIA 🪼

Annelida

Cnidaria

Voting ended onApr 3, 2024

Annelida: Segmented Worms. This group includes earthworms, leeches, and many classes under the umbrella of “polychaete”. This diverse phylum encompasses deposit feeders (eating dirt), detritivores, scavengers, deadly ambush predators, filter feeders, parasites, herbivores, and more. They are broadly defined by their repeating body segments and parapodia, which are nubby appendages used for both movement and breathing. Some have curved jaws for catching prey or scraping detritus off of rocks, while others have wide, elaborate, brightly colored feather-like fans for filter feeding. While able to crawl freely, a majority of marine Annelids spend most of their time in self-built tubes or burrows. Among their many important functions, they play a key role in mixing soil/sediment, breaking down decaying organic matter, and providing a key food source to countless other animals.

Cnidaria: Jellyfish, anemones, corals, box jellies, and hydroids. They have a gelatinous body with radial symmetry, a decentralized nervous system, and tentacles surrounding a simple mouth. The defining feature of this phylum are their cnidocytes, or stinging cells. There are two different body plans of the Cnidaria; an immobile “polyp” attached to a surface, or a free-living “medusa” which can swim or drift in the water column. Many polyp Cnidarians, such as corals, live in colonies. Some corals build reefs which serve as habitat for other animals. Free-living medusa Cnidarians must return to the seafloor in a polyp-like stage as a part of their life cycle.

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What phylum is your fursona?

🕷 Arthropoda

🦑 Mollusca

🥿 Platyhelminthes

🪱 Annelida

🪼 Cnidaria

🧽 Porifera

⭐ Echinodermata

🪱 Onychophora

🦠 Bryozoa

🪱 Nematoda

🌼 Other

👩‍🦲 [See Results]

Voting ended onMar 5, 2025

[battle-of-the-taxons]

PHYLA: ROUND TWO

Blastocladiomycota vs Zoopagomycota

Blastocladiomycota

Zoopagomycota

Voting ended onFeb 7, 2024

Propaganda under here:

BLASTOCLADIOMYCOTA

Most fungi are distinctly aerobic (relying on oxygen to survive), however the blastoclads can turn to anaerobic methods in low oxygen environments. They are saprotrophs and parasites of other fungi, plants and invertebrates. Female gametes produce a chemical called Sirenin, and male gametes are up to Twenty Million times more responsive to this pheromone than nutrients.

ZOOPAGOMYCOTA

Mainly parasitic with smaller animals, but can also be parasitic/ a pathogen towards humans and other fungi. This group contains the genus Entomophthora, which infects flies and other two winged insects and takes control of the brain to spread spores. This Phylum was previously known as Zygomycota, which included Mucoromycota as well. It is hard to perform DNA analysis on Zoopagomycota specimens as they are often found in dead hosts, so determining which species the DNA came from can be tough.

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Salinella - Wikipedia

So it turns out an entire phylum of animal, totally unlike any other, was supposedly found in salt flats in the late 1800s by a single scientist, but no one has been able to confirm it

Sadly, it is completely possible that a phylum might have only one living species living in an environment as specialized as salt flats, and that it could be extinct by now :(

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The plant root guy

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