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What are Vertebrate how are they classified? |
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ANIMALS HAVING BACK BONE OR VERTEBRAL COLUMN R CALLED VERTEBRATES
Vertebrates or chordates are classified into 7 classes, which are bony fish, cartilage fish, jawless fish, mammals, amphibians, reptiles, and birds. Bony fish are the most common type of fish and include the most amount of species in the vertebrates class. Cartilage fish are commonly known as rays, scates, and sharks. Jawless fish are very rare and are known to be the ancient fish. Reptiles are categorized into Chelonia-turtles/tortoises, squamata-snakes lizards, crocildilians- crocs, alligators and caimen and some others. Amphibians are urodela- salmanders, newts, anura- frogs and toads, apoda- Caecilians. Mammals are dogs, cats, whales, dolphins, horses...... you probably know this. Birds or aves are pretty simple. Birds are birds!! Animals that are not vertebrates include molluscs, arthropods, cnidarians, poriforans, nematods, platyhelmithes, annelids, and way more. there are more invertebrates than vertebrates.
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