RE: Metazoa info
June 29, 2014 at 5:26 pm
(This post was last modified: June 29, 2014 at 5:58 pm by Duke Guilmon.)
Eukrohnia hamata
![[Image: Eukrohnia_hamta-750x750.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=www.arcodiv.org%2Fwatercolumn%2Fchaetognaths%2Fimages%2FEukrohnia_hamta-750x750.jpg)
Size:4.5cm
Weight:Not known
Life expectancy:Not known
When it first appeared:Not known
Location:This animal is found in polar and sub-polar oceans in mespleagic and bathypelagic depths.
![[Image: Eukrohnia_hamata-map.gif]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=www.arcodiv.org%2Fwatercolumn%2Fchaetognaths%2Fimages%2FEukrohnia_hamata-map.gif)
Taxonomy:
Class:Sagittoidea
Order
hragmophora
Family:Eukrohniidae
Genus:Eukrohnia
Species:Eukrohnia hamata
Diet:E.hamata eats small copeopods and zooplankton.
Anatomy:At the side of its head is a pair of jaws. These jaws grip fast and hold down tightly on struggling prey.
Behavior:This animal is solitary and not much is known about its behavior.
Reproduction:This animal is prothandrous. This means they can change sex. E.hamata release 2000 2.5mm eggs. The eggs are laid in early or midsummer.
Interaction with other animals:Besides prey not known.
![[Image: Eukrohnia_hamata-head-750x750.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=www.arcodiv.org%2Fwatercolumn%2Fchaetognaths%2Fimages%2FEukrohnia_hamata-head-750x750.jpg)
Don't say a word. Let me reach into your nightmares.
Other sources:
http://www.int-res.com/articles/meps/63/m063p201.pdf
http://www.arcodiv.org/watercolumn/chaet...amata.html
http://species-identification.org/specie...mns&id=267
Deer tick
![[Image: shutterstock_3217828.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=www.outdoorbasecamp.com%2Fnew%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2010%2F07%2Fshutterstock_3217828.jpg)
Ixodes scapularis
Size:2-3.5mm
Weight:Not known
Life expectancy: 2 years
When it first appeared: Not known
Location
eer ticks are commonly found in wooded areas, and they live across the east coast of america to texas.
![[Image: 364px-Ixodes_scapularis_range_map.svg.png]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=upload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2F7%2F73%2FIxodes_scapularis_range_map.svg%2F364px-Ixodes_scapularis_range_map.svg.png)
Taxonomy:
Class:Arachnida
Subclass:Acari
Order
arasitiformes
Suborder:Ixodida
Superfamily:Ixodoidea
Family:Ixodidae
Genus:Ixodes
Species:Ixodes scapularis
Diet:This animal sucks the blood of humans, dogs, cats, deer, lizards, mice, and birds.
Anatomy: The jaws of this animals lock tightly. The deer tick has evolved jaws in which removing them is hard to do. The tick can dig its jaw so deep in flesh, that removing them incorrectly can result in decapitating them.
Behavior: These animal are solitary. Ticks will stand on the edge of a leaf or a stick and begin questing. Questing is when a tick stands with its arms out and waits for its next host. When its next host brushes past, the tick will either begin feeding right away or move to a thinner area of skin.
Reproduction: The female deer tick will need to eat for three days before laying its eggs and mating. After mating a female will lay 2000 or more eggs.
Relationships with other animals: Deer ticks are parasites. Deer ticks remain dependent on white-tailed deer. This tick gives diseases to its host like Lyme disease to its host.
![[Image: DeerTickGroup.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=www.tickinfo.com%2Fimages%2FDeerTickGroup.jpg)
Blood what are you doing, blood,STAHP!
Other sources:
http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/idepc...ticks.html
http://dnr.state.mn.us/insects/deerticks/index.html
http://www.tickencounter.org/tick_identi.../deer_tick
![[Image: Eukrohnia_hamta-750x750.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=www.arcodiv.org%2Fwatercolumn%2Fchaetognaths%2Fimages%2FEukrohnia_hamta-750x750.jpg)
Size:4.5cm
Weight:Not known
Life expectancy:Not known
When it first appeared:Not known
Location:This animal is found in polar and sub-polar oceans in mespleagic and bathypelagic depths.
![[Image: Eukrohnia_hamata-map.gif]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=www.arcodiv.org%2Fwatercolumn%2Fchaetognaths%2Fimages%2FEukrohnia_hamata-map.gif)
Taxonomy:
Class:Sagittoidea
Order

Family:Eukrohniidae
Genus:Eukrohnia
Species:Eukrohnia hamata
Diet:E.hamata eats small copeopods and zooplankton.
Anatomy:At the side of its head is a pair of jaws. These jaws grip fast and hold down tightly on struggling prey.
Behavior:This animal is solitary and not much is known about its behavior.
Reproduction:This animal is prothandrous. This means they can change sex. E.hamata release 2000 2.5mm eggs. The eggs are laid in early or midsummer.
Interaction with other animals:Besides prey not known.
![[Image: Eukrohnia_hamata-head-750x750.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=www.arcodiv.org%2Fwatercolumn%2Fchaetognaths%2Fimages%2FEukrohnia_hamata-head-750x750.jpg)
Don't say a word. Let me reach into your nightmares.
Other sources:
http://www.int-res.com/articles/meps/63/m063p201.pdf
http://www.arcodiv.org/watercolumn/chaet...amata.html
http://species-identification.org/specie...mns&id=267
Deer tick
![[Image: shutterstock_3217828.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=www.outdoorbasecamp.com%2Fnew%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2010%2F07%2Fshutterstock_3217828.jpg)
Ixodes scapularis
Size:2-3.5mm
Weight:Not known
Life expectancy: 2 years
When it first appeared: Not known
Location

![[Image: 364px-Ixodes_scapularis_range_map.svg.png]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=upload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2F7%2F73%2FIxodes_scapularis_range_map.svg%2F364px-Ixodes_scapularis_range_map.svg.png)
Taxonomy:
Class:Arachnida
Subclass:Acari
Order

Suborder:Ixodida
Superfamily:Ixodoidea
Family:Ixodidae
Genus:Ixodes
Species:Ixodes scapularis
Diet:This animal sucks the blood of humans, dogs, cats, deer, lizards, mice, and birds.
Anatomy: The jaws of this animals lock tightly. The deer tick has evolved jaws in which removing them is hard to do. The tick can dig its jaw so deep in flesh, that removing them incorrectly can result in decapitating them.
Behavior: These animal are solitary. Ticks will stand on the edge of a leaf or a stick and begin questing. Questing is when a tick stands with its arms out and waits for its next host. When its next host brushes past, the tick will either begin feeding right away or move to a thinner area of skin.
Reproduction: The female deer tick will need to eat for three days before laying its eggs and mating. After mating a female will lay 2000 or more eggs.
Relationships with other animals: Deer ticks are parasites. Deer ticks remain dependent on white-tailed deer. This tick gives diseases to its host like Lyme disease to its host.
![[Image: DeerTickGroup.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=www.tickinfo.com%2Fimages%2FDeerTickGroup.jpg)
Blood what are you doing, blood,STAHP!
Other sources:
http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/idepc...ticks.html
http://dnr.state.mn.us/insects/deerticks/index.html
http://www.tickencounter.org/tick_identi.../deer_tick
![[Image: guilmon_evolution_by_davidgtm3-d4gb5rp.gif]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=orig15.deviantart.net%2F1dbf%2Ff%2F2011%2F319%2F3%2F3%2Fguilmon_evolution_by_davidgtm3-d4gb5rp.gif)