Vertebrata

Also known as animals with backbone, subphylum vertebrate, vertibrate, vertebrates, subphylum Vertebrata, vertebrate

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.

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Vertebrata is a subphylum within the phylum Chordata. It is also classified under the parent taxa Craniata and Olfactores. The common name for this group is vertebrates. The study of these organisms is known as vertebrate zoology. Members of this subphylum reproduce via sexual reproduction. Their temporal range began in the Ordovician period, approximately 525 million years ago.

The habitat of vertebrates includes marine, brackish, and freshwater environments. They are the source of offal. This taxon is the opposite of invertebrate. Descriptions of Vertebrata appear in the Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, and the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition. The status of this taxon is accepted. It is referenced by 5,263 other encyclopedia articles.

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Species

vertebrates

Vertebrata

GENUS

KingdomPlantae
PhylumRhodophyta
ClassFlorideophyceae
OrderCeramiales
FamilyRhodomelaceae

Habitatmarine, brackish, freshwater

Observations recorded118,694

脊椎动物亚门是脊索动物门下的一个亚门。拉丁文学名是Vertebrata，词根是“vertebra”，意为脊椎骨。目前所知最早的脊椎動物是中國雲南省昆明發現的豐嬌昆明魚，距今約5.3億年前。和節肢動物殼長在體外或軟體動物無骨骼不同，脊椎动物亚门的动物的脊椎都包在骨头里面，是脊索动物门中最大和最先进的亚门。这个亚门的成员拥有的肌肉大多数是一对一对的肌肉。神经系统有一部分在脊梁骨中间。循环系统较完善，有心脏可以促进血液循环。脂肪組織是絕大多數脊椎動物特有的構造，可以使之一段時間不進食，而不會能量耗竭而死。脊椎动物亚门动物的脊椎是体内骨，有软骨也有硬骨。在动物成长时，这个骨架支持体型。因此脊椎动物可以比无脊动物长得大，而且平均体量也比较大。

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Museum specimens

Specimen records: 10,514
With media: 646
Family: Rhodomelaceae
Collections: LACM, UTEP, NMMNHS
Recorded in: United States

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Research

28,137,877 papers

The phylum Vertebrata: a case for zoological recognition.ReviewZoological letters · 2018Irie N, Satoh N, Kuratani SDOI: 10.1186/s40851-018-0114-y
Editorial.Seminars in cell & developmental biology · 2019Tucker AS, Andoniadou CLDOI: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2018.12.004
Middle Eocene cartilaginous fishes (Vertebrata: Chondrichthyes) of the Dnieper-Donets Basin, northern Ukraine.Palaeontologia electronica (Online) · 2023Kovalchuk O, Kriwet J, Shimada K et al.DOI: 10.26879/1283
Sequential and Asynchronous Strengthening of the Influence of Temperature on the Endo- and Exocytosis of Insulin in the Isolated Vertebrata Hepatocytes: Summing up Previous Studies.ReviewCurrent protein & peptide science · 2020Kolychev AP, Terpilovskii MA, Uversky VNDOI: 10.2174/1389203720666190325101804
Editorial.Developmental and comparative immunology · 2015Söderhäll IDOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2014.09.002
Updated checklist of Azores Chondrichthyes (Vertebrata: Gnathostomata).Biodiversity data journal · 2021Barcelos LMD, Azevedo JMN, Barreiros JPDOI: 10.3897/BDJ.9.e62813
A new lanosyl guanidine from Vertebrata lanosa with anti-inflammatory activity.Natural product research · 2025Jacobtorweihen J, Obaidi I, Sherlock L et al.DOI: 10.1080/14786419.2024.2301759
Deuterostome Ancestors and Chordate Origins.ReviewIntegrative and comparative biology · 2024Swalla BJDOI: 10.1093/icb/icae134

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: taxon
Subclass of: Chordata
Parent taxon: Olfactores
Image: Lizard on leaf cutted.jpg

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taxon rank: subphylum
taxon name: Vertebrata
Commons category: Vertebrata
topic's main category: Category:Vertebrates
Commons gallery: Vertebrata
taxon common name: virveldyr
equivalent class: kbpedia.org/kko/rc/Vertebrate
studied by: vertebrate zoology
start time: 525000000-
this taxon is source of: offal
opposite of: invertebrate
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
mode of reproduction: sexual reproduction
temporal range start: Ordovician

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Encyclopedic overview

23 sections

Contents

Characteristics
Unique features
Physical
Molecular
Evolutionary history
Cambrian explosion: first craniates
Paleozoic: evolution of fish, first amphibians
Mesozoic: Dinosaurs and other land animals
Cenozoic: Age of Mammals
Approaches to classification
Taxonomic history
Vertebrata
Cyclostomes and craniates
Traditional taxonomy
External phylogeny
Internal phylogeny
Diversity
Recent population trends
Notes
See also
References
Bibliography
External links

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 ( ) 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 fish and reptiles. The fish include the jawless Agnatha, 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.

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