VERTEBRATE

Vertebrate

Vertebrates are animals that are members of the subphylum Vertebrata . Vertebrates include the overwhelming majority of the phylum Chordata, with currently about 64,000 species described. Vertebrates include the amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and birds, as well as the jawless fish, bony fish, sharks and rays. Extant vertebrates range in size from the frog species Paedophryne amauensis, at as little as 7.7 mm, to the blue whale, at up to 33 m . Vertebrates make up about 4% of all described animal species; the rest are invertebrates, which lack backbones.

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vertebrate

Noun

  1. An animal having a backbone.

Adjective

  1. Having a backbone.


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