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What animals are eucoelomate?
Animals such as earthworms, snails, insects, starfish, and vertebrates are all eucoelomates. A third group of triploblasts has a body cavity that is d...
What are examples of coelomate animals?
The protostome coelomates (acoelomates and pseudocoelomates are also protostomes) include the mollusks, annelids, arthropods, pogonophorans, apometame...
The thoracic cavity is surrounded by stiff rib cage while the abodominal cvity has a softer muscular wall?
Why is the thoracic cavity surrounded by a stiff rib cage?What is a difference between the abdominal and thoracic cavities?What cavity is surrounded ...
What animals have no body cavities?
Acoelomate animals, like flatworms, have no body cavity at all. Semi-solid mesodermal tissues between the gut and body wall hold their organs in place...
What organ systems are subdivisions of the ventral body cavity?
The ventral cavity is subdivided into the thoracic and abdominopelvic cavities. The thoracic cavity fills the chest and is subdivided into two pleural...
Where is the embryonic coelom?
The extra-embryonic coelom is a cavity that contains the chorion. It is located between Heuser's membrane and the trophoblast. What is the coelom in a...