Ummm, long question about IDing animal phylum?

Question

How would I identify by:

tissue presence, symmetry, germ layers, digestive system development, body cavity type

For each phyla:

the common name, a representative member, and

a description, including at least two characteristics unique to that phylum (and that distinguish it from other closely related phyla)

Porifera, Cnidaria, Platyhelminthes, Annelida, Mollusca, Nematoda, Arthropoda, Echinodermata, and Chordata

Thank you soooo much to whoever can help with this!

Answer 1

Try for any book. I can refer you to see BIOZONE PUBLICATION 2006 edition or 2007 ed. ( UK/USA)

The name of the book is SENIOR BIOLOGY 1 for AP courses and on page346-360 there are pretty good description about classification....as you have wanted to get from us. The book outlines most important things in points.

It is a lot of writing. Get some book for so many details you wanted.

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However, if you can't get the biozone's senior biology book, I can refer you to a link, where you have a plenty of sites to choose from......certainly they can give you alot of help to make some notes.....

PLEASE CLICK

http://www.101science.com/Taxonomy.htm

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Animal and plant taxonomy

http://faculty.fmcc.suny.edu/mcdarby/Ani...

For animals click here

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/phyla/phyla...

and next systematics

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/phyla/metaz...