Vertebrate

Of Vertebrata and chordate.   May also be referred to as craniate.

Animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium.

This concept's ID is @1~7387

Mammal

  • mammal 13 facts

    Any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born...

  • Amniota 1 facts

    Higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals) possessing an amnion during developmen...

Tail

  • tail 10 facts

    The posterior part of the body of a vertebrate especially when elongated and extending beyond...

  • caudal appendage 0 facts

    Tail especially of a mammal posterior to and above the anus.

Also contains

  • bird 38 facts

    Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wi...

  • blood 12 facts

    The fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma,...

  • thorax 11 facts

    The part of the human torso between the neck and the diaphragm or the corresponding part...

  • amphibian 8 facts

    Cold-blooded vertebrate typically living on land but breeding in water; aquatic larvae...

  • endoskeleton 8 facts

    The internal skeleton; bony and cartilaginous structure (especially of vertebrates...

  • digit 5 facts

    A finger or toe in human beings or corresponding body part in other vertebrates.

  • fetus 5 facts

    An unborn or unhatched vertebrate in the later stages of development showing the main recognizable...

  • vertebrate foot 4 facts

    The extremity of the limb in vertebrates.

  • aquatic vertebrate 4 facts

    Animal living wholly or chiefly in or on water.

  • reptile 4 facts

    Any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes,...

  • amniote 2 facts

    Any member of the Amniota.

  • rib 2 facts

    Any of the 12 pairs of curved arches of bone extending from the spine to or toward the sternum...

  • ovary 2 facts

    (vertebrates) one of usually two organs that produce ova and secrete estrogen and progest...

  • tetrapod 1 facts

    A vertebrate animal having four feet or legs or leglike appendages.

  • gnathostome 0 facts

    A vertebrate animal possessing true jaws.

  • belly 0 facts

    The underpart of the body of certain vertebrates such as snakes or fish.