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Vertebrates (/ˈvɜːrtəbrɪts, -ˌbreɪts/) are
animals with a
vertebral column (backbone or spine), and a cranium, or skull. The
vertebral column surrounds...
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naturalist and solicitor. He
wrote General and
Particular Descriptions of the
Vertebrated Animals (1821) and
translated Georges Cuvier's Règne animal,
making considerable...
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vertebrate animals belonging to the
clade Amniota, a
large group that
comprises the vast
majority of
living terrestrial and
semiaquatic vertebrates....
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Vertebrate zoology is the
biological discipline that
consists of the
study of
Vertebrate animals, i.e.,
animals with a backbone, such as fish, amphibians...
- 'mouth') are
jawed vertebrates.
Gnathostome diversity comprises roughly 60,000 species,
which accounts for 99% of all
extant vertebrates,
including all living...
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evolutionary biology,
mimicry in
vertebrates is
mimicry by a
vertebrate of some
model (an animal, not
necessarily a
vertebrate),
deceiving some
other animal...
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conodonts and ostracoderms,
among others). They are
sister to
vertebrates with jaws
known as gnathostomes, who
evolved from
jawless ancestors during...
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brain is an
organ that
serves as the
center of the
nervous system in all
vertebrate and most
invertebrate animals. It
consists of
nervous tissue and is typically...
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including all
animals excluding the
chordate subphylum Vertebrata, i.e.
vertebrates. Well-known
phyla of
invertebrates include arthropods, mollusks, annelids...
- Many
vertebrates are limbless, limb-reduced, or apodous, with a body plan
consisting of a head and
vertebral column, but no
adjoining limbs such as legs...
