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Vertebrata
Vertebrates (), also called craniates, are animals with a vertebral column and a cranium. The vertebral column surrounds and protects the spinal cord, while the cranium protects the brain.
The vertebrates make up the subphylum Vertebrata ( VUR-tə-BRAY-tə) with some 65,000 species, by far the largest ranked grouping in the phylum Chordata. The vertebrates include mammals, birds, amphibians, and various classes of fishes and reptiles. The two major living vertebrate subgroups are the jawless Cyclostomi (including hagfish and lampreys), and the jawed Gnathostomata. The jawed fish include both the cartilaginous fish and the bony fish. Bony fish include the lobe-finned fish, which gave rise to the tetrapods, the animals with four limbs. Despite their success, vertebrates still only make up less than five percent of all described animal species.
26 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Wrack Siphon Weed
speciesVertebrata lanosa
Vertebrata fucoides
speciesVertebrata fucoides
Vertebrata hendryi
speciesVertebrata hendryi
Vertebrata nigra
speciesVertebrata nigra
Vertebrata thuyoides
speciesVertebrata thuyoides
Vertebrata fruticulosa
speciesVertebrata fruticulosa
Vertebrata decipiens
speciesVertebrata decipiens
Vertebrata byssoides
speciesVertebrata byssoides
Vertebrata australis
speciesVertebrata australis
Vertebrata aterrima
speciesVertebrata aterrima
Vertebrata patersonis
speciesVertebrata patersonis
Vertebrata subulifera
speciesVertebrata subulifera
Vertebrata hypnoides
speciesVertebrata hypnoides
Vertebrata reptabunda
speciesVertebrata reptabunda
Vertebrata foetidissima
speciesVertebrata foetidissima
Vertebrata agardhiana
speciesVertebrata agardhiana
Vertebrata aterrimophila
speciesVertebrata aterrimophila
Vertebrata constricta
speciesVertebrata constricta
Vertebrata furcellata
speciesVertebrata furcellata
Vertebrata lobophoralis
speciesVertebrata lobophoralis
Vertebrata simulans
speciesVertebrata simulans
Vertebrata stimpsonii
speciesVertebrata stimpsonii
Vertebrata tripinnata
speciesVertebrata tripinnata
Vertebrata urbana
speciesVertebrata urbana
Vertebrata woodii
speciesVertebrata woodii
Vertebrata isogona
speciesVertebrata isogona
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 889013.