Chordate
Chordates
Chordates, members o the phylum Chordata, are deuterostome ainimals possessin a notochord, a hollae dorsal nerve cord, pharyngeal slits, an endostyle, an a post-anal tail for at least some period o thair life cycles. Taxonomically, the phylum includes the subphyla Vertebrata, includin mammals, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds; Tunicata, includin salps an sea squirts; an Cephalochordata, comprisin the lancelets. For a recent concise review o chordate relationships, see Holland, N. D. 2005, Chordates. Curr. Biol. 15: R911-R914.
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| The X-ray tetra (Pristella maxillaris) is ane o the few chordates wi a visible backbone. The spinal cord is hoosed within its backbone. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kinrick: | Animalia |
| Superphylum: | Deuterostomia |
| Phylum: | Chordata Haeckel, 1874[1] |
The phylum Hemichordata includin the acorn worms haes been presented as a fowert chordate subphylum, but it nou is uisually treatit as a separate phylum. It, alang wi the echinoderm phylum, includin starnfish, sea urchins, an sea cucumbers an thair kin, is the chordates' closest relatives. Primitive chordates are kent frae at least as early as the Cambrian explosion.
Thare mair nor 75,000 livin species o chordates, aboot hauf o whilk is banie fish o the class osteichthyes. The warld's lairgest ainimal, the blue whaul, an festest ainimal, the peregrine falcon, are chordates.[2]
References
- ↑ Nielsen, Claus (2006 (July)). "The authorship of higher chordate taxa". Zoologica Scripta. 41 (4): 435–436. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2012.00536.x. Check date values in:
|year=(help) - ↑ AccessScience.com Archived 2013-10-29 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 23 December 2012.
Freemit airtins
- Chordate at the Encyclopedia o Life
- Chordate on GlobalTwitcher.com
- Chordate node at Tree O Life Archived 2007-02-24 at the Wayback Machine
- Chordate node at NCBI Taxonomy
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