Animal Classification: The Invertebrates Song
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This song teaches about animal classification, specifically focusing on invertebrates. It is a follow up to our earlier VERTEBRATES song.
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Voices
Shark: Lance Long
Everyone: Chorus/intro/bridge
Arthropods: Alexa Thompson
Echinoderms: Amy Whitcomb:
Cnidarians: (Anonymous by choice)
Mollusks and Worms (nematodes): Joanna Pace
Sponges: Tim Condor
Worms (Platyhelminthes): Courtney Bateman
Worms (annelids): Matt Pace
Additional Voices
Kaname
Emerson
Theodore
Drums: Lucas Seoane
Guitar/Keys: Matt Pace
Bass: Akin-Alade Ogo - Instagram: @anomaly22
Strings (cello, viola, double bass) : Sérgio Rabello
Mixing and Mastering: Dee Kei Mixes
Visuals: Pipalupa
Music Production Matt Pace
Song by Matt and Joanna
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Lyrics:
They said we’re “fake fish”,
But we were first to evolve.
They said we’re spineless, (it’s true)
We have no bones at all
Invertebrate means we don’t have a backbone
We’re cold-blooded
Some have shells, and some don’t
Arthropods, Echinoderms
Cnidarians, Mollusks, Sponges, Worms
Arthropods, Echinoderms
Cnidarians, Molluscs, Sponges, Worms
We are arthropods, more than 80% of animals [species of animal]
We have exoskeletons: our strong outer shells
Some fly, some swim, and most lay eggs
You can tell us apart by our number of legs:
6 - Insects
8 - Arachnids
10 - Crustaceans, and then
Myriapods have more than 10
Echinoderms have spiny skin ,
and like saltwater
We’re sea- urchins, cucumbers, stars, and sand dollars
And also sea lilies. Now everybody listen:
We move, eat, and breathe through our water vascular system
Jellyfish
We’re cnidarians, with coral and anemones
We have a beautiful, radial symmetry
We will sting you unless you’re a friend
We eat and poop out of the very same end.
(Spiral nematode: 🤨🥴😳(Eeugh!)
We don’t have organs, no body cavity
Some stay in one place, and some swim free.
too different? Have more of a beat.
We Mollusks are soft, but some make shells in odd shapes
Many of us have a radula, a tongue that scrapes.
We include bivalves, like clams, and cephalopods like me (show octopus and squid as well)
But most of us are snails and slugs
Who live on the land, in freshwater, or the sea.
Sea Sponge
We are sponges, also called poriferans
Because our skin has pores, that’s the difference
I started out swimming, but now I guess I’ll
Attach at the base, baby. That’s called sessile
3 worms (Earthworm, Spiral Nematode, and Flatworm):
So like, we’re worms, but can you believe this song is lumping us all into one category?
Yea, there are like 9 different phyla (show), and we have nothing in common. (they look around at each other, looking somewhat similar).
look… Many of us are Annelids: segmented worms and leeches (leeches)
Or Nematodes, called roundworms. Some found in your breeches (breeches)____
Platyhelminthes, - f-flatworms to you (you)____
Only a few are p-p-parasites, too ____
From the microscopic myxozoan
To the rare colossal squid
Just remember who________
Came before you:________
Invertebrates did!
Arthropods, Echinoderms
Cnidarians, Mollusks, Sponges, Worms
Arthropods, Echinoderms
Cnidarians, Molluscs, Sponges, Worms
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