Species Profile
Aphrodita
Sea mouse
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumAnnelida
ClassPolychaeta
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Aphrodita lives on sea floor.
Carnivorous and slow-moving.
Distinctive polychaete.
Size & Structure
01
Oval flattened body
02
Hair-like setae
03
Iridescent sheen
04
Brown or grey
Aphrodita — 3D Model
General Features
- Coelom
- Coelomate
- Body plan
- Tube within a tube body plan (Protostomous)
- Germ layer
- Triploblastic
- Metamerism
- Present
- Body symmetry
- Bilateral
- Fertilization
- External
- Digestion type
- Complete
- Nervous system
- Ladder-like
- Excretory organ
- Nephridia
- Body temperature
- Poikilothermic, stenohaline
- Circulatory type
- Closed circulation
- Development type
- Indirect
- Respiratory type
- Body surface
- Mode of excretion
- Ammonotelism
- Circulation system
- Closed
- Skeleton structure
- Absent
- Level of Organisation
- Organ system level
- Regulation of Osmosis
- Osmoregulator
Ecology
Predator of small animals
Sea-floor ecosystem role
Benthic food web
Economic Importance
Marine biology studies
Educational importance
Biodiversity documentation