Vertebrates, which include fishes, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and mammals, all share a vertebral column, or a chain of bony elements (vertebrae) that run along the dorsal surface from head to tail and form the main skeletal axis of the body. The vertebral column surrounds and more or less replaces the notochord as the chief "stiffener" of the body in locomotion. Some characteristics shared by most or all vertebrates
Research Links
Subphylum
Vertebrata
... Vertebrata. Vertebrates, which include fishes, reptiles,
amphibians, birds, and mammals, all share ...
Description: What makes a vertebrate a
vertebrate? They have more in common than a backbone. Find out more in this...
Vertebrata
[Previous Taxon] [Down Button] [Deep Button] [Tree] [Table of Contents]
[Bottom of Page] Vertebrata. Animals with backbones. ...
Vertebrata --
The Dinosauricon
VERTEBRATA ANIMALS WITH BACKBONES, ... CLASSIFICATION. PARENT
CLADES: Animalia CLADOGRAM: --Vertebrata ...
Subphylum
Vertebrata
Vertebrates. (animals with backbones). ... More on Tetrapods. General.
Introduction to the Vertebrates Vertebrata. Vertebrate History. ...
subphylum
Vertebrata (ERMS taxonomic hierarchy)
... European Register of Marine Species Taxonomic hierarchy for the subphylum
Vertebrata. subphylum Vertebrata ... subphylum, Vertebrata. ...
Introduction
to Vertebrates
... interesting partly because we are intimately familiar with them, but also
because
we ARE them. Our species, Homo sapiens, is included within the Vertebrata. ...
Vertebrate Web
Links
Vertebrate Natural History Links. If you discover new web sites,
let me know. Mail to Mike Dixon. Web resources. ...
Products
Vertebrata
CPL Worldwide Directory of Agrobiologicals Animalia Vertebrata
Products indexed according to: ...
Vertebrates
Phylum Chordata Kingdom Animalia Life on Earth Index.
Subphylum
Vertebrata
... Subphylum Vertebrata. This large group of animals takes its name from its
distinguishing
feature: the vertebral column, or the backbone. The backbone made of ...
Chordata:
Subphylum Vertebrata
... encyclopedia Encyclopedia Chordata Subphylum Vertebrata.
Vertebrates constitute the ... in this article: ...