Species Profile
Raphus cucullatus ✝︎
Dodo
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassAves
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Lived until the 17th century.
Inhabited island forests.
Example of human-caused extinction.
Size & Structure
01
Large round body
02
Small wings
03
Strong legs
04
Curved beak
Raphus cucullatus ✝︎ — 3D Model
General Features
- Coelom
- True coelom
- Body plan
- Tube within a tube body plan (Deuterostomous)
- Germ layer
- Triploblastic
- Metamerism
- Absent
- Body symmetry
- Bilateral
- Fertilization
- Internal
- Digestion type
- Complete
- Nervous system
- Well developed
- Excretory organ
- Kidneys
- Body temperature
- Homeothermic
- Circulatory type
- Closed, double, complete
- Development type
- Direct (oviparous)
- Respiratory type
- Pulmonary respiration with air sacs
- Mode of excretion
- Uricotelism
- Circulation system
- Closed
- Skeleton structure
- Endoskeleton
- Level of Organisation
- Organ system level
- Regulation of Osmosis
- Osmoregulator
Ecology
Island seed disperser
Ground-dwelling bird
Example of island evolution
Economic Importance
Symbol of extinction
Conservation awareness
Evolutionary research