Tardigrade Anatomy

Tardigrades are aquatic micro animals that are also known as water bears or moss piglets. Most range from 03 to 05 mm 0012 to 0020 in in length although the largest species may reach 12 mm 0047 in.

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The pharyngeal bulb which then sucks up the fluids.

Tardigrade anatomy. Tardigrades have only a single gonad unlike humans and they have a dorsal brain and a paired ventral nervous system while humans have a dorsal brain and a single dorsal nervous system. They mention doctor who in the picture and then go with something else in the name. Tardigrades range in size from 50 bacteria sized to 1200µ.

Anatomy and morphology edit tardigrades have barrel shaped bodies with four pairs of stubby legs. Some tardigrades have a pair of eyes consisting of a single pigmented cell each. If you watch a tardigrade wobble around on its little clawed legs and poke things with its pointy face it might remind you of a tiny hamster.

They have a bilaterally symmetrical cylindrical body. Skip to primary navigation. And are absent in many families of tardigrade external anatomy internal anatomy 11.

Some even eat other tardigrades. The tardigrades internal anatomy is actually quite similar to that of larger animals. Click for even more facts or download the worksheets.

Anatomy of a tardigrade. A tardigrades digestive system is made up of four main parts. They have a full alimentary canal for their digestive system and they have well developed muscles.

The stylet which punctures preys cells. There is then a short esophagus leading to the gut where digestion occurs. The head is bluntly rounded contains the mouth and may be equipped with sensory probably tactile cirri.

Some tardigrades are plant eaters but others eat smaller creatures and single celled organisms. Finally waste is excreted from the anus.

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