vertebrata

IPA: vˈɝtʌbrʌtʌ

Examples of "vertebrata" in Sentences

The containing group of jawed vertebrates and jawless fishes is vertebrata.
The containing group would be vertebrata or gnathostomata, or more recently, sarcopterygii.
Fish and fishermen are contained in vertebrata, while jawed fish and fishermen are contained in gnathostomata.
Take, for example, the vertebrata; in these, by some mysterious bond of union, the organic globules are seen to arrange themselves into two nearly parallel rows.
The teleology which supposes that the eye, such as we see it in man, or one of the higher vertebrata, was made with the precise structure it exhibits, for the purpose of enabling the animal which possesses it to see, has undoubtedly received its death-blow.
These characteristics place man inevitably among the so-called vertebrata; he is certainly not an invertebrate, nor is the basic structure of his body such that a third group, outside the invertebrata and vertebrata, can be made to include only the single type -- man.
Most of our readers know that it belongs to that one of two primary animal divisions which is called the vertebrata, and that the distinctive feature which place it in this division is the possession of a spinal column or backbone, really a series of small ring-like bones, the vertebrae (Figure 1 v.b.) strung together, as it were, on the main nerve axis, the spinal cord (Figure 1 s.c.).