Vertebrates
Vertebrata
Vertebrates /ˈvɜːrtɪbrɪts/ comprise all species of animals within the subphylum Vertebrata /-eɪ/ (chordates with backbones). Vertebrates represent the overwhelming majority of the phylum Chordata, with currently about 66,000 species described. Vertebrates include the jawless fish and the jawed vertebrates, which include the cartilaginous fish (sharks, rays, and ratfish) and the bony fish.
12 branches of this subphylum, most-observed first · about 76,215 known species
Birds
classAves
Mammals
classMammalia
Reptiles
classReptilia
Amphibians
classAmphibia
Ray-finned Fishes
classActinopterygii
Cartilaginous Fishes
classChondrichthyes
Jawless Fishes
superclassAgnatha
Dinosaurs
classDinosauria
Lobe-finned Fishes
classSarcopterygii
Eupelycosauria
suborderEupelycosauria
Placoderms
classPlacodermi
Dicynodonts
infraorderDicynodontia
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 355675.