Vertebrates (/ˈvɜːrtəbrɪts, -ˌbreɪts/) are deuterostomal animals with bony or cartilaginous axial endoskeleton — known as the vertebral column, spine... 77 KB (7,023 words) - 02:52, 10 April 2024 |
Vertebrate zoology is the biological discipline that consists of the study of Vertebrate animals, i.e., animals with a backbone, such as fish, amphibians... 2 KB (193 words) - 22:07, 27 December 2023 |
Brain (redirect from Vertebrate brain) serves as the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate and most invertebrate animals. In vertebrates, a small part of the brain called the hypothalamus... 130 KB (15,433 words) - 04:32, 17 April 2024 |
Gnathostomata (redirect from Jawed vertebrate) 'mouth') are the jawed vertebrates. Gnathostome diversity comprises roughly 60,000 species, which accounts for 99% of all living vertebrates, including humans... 29 KB (1,984 words) - 12:20, 25 March 2024 |
A Laboratory Manual for Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy is a textbook written by Libbie Hyman in 1922 and released as the first edition from the University... 1 KB (118 words) - 21:09, 22 January 2024 |
Nervous system (redirect from Nervous system (vertebrate)) first arose in wormlike organisms about 550 to 600 million years ago. In vertebrates, it consists of two main parts, the central nervous system (CNS) and... 72 KB (9,162 words) - 18:21, 12 April 2024 |
Amniote (redirect from Higher vertebrate) vertebrate animals belonging to the clade Amniota, a large group that comprises the vast majority of living terrestrial and semiaquatic vertebrates.... 43 KB (3,308 words) - 19:42, 22 April 2024 |
Invertebrate (redirect from Non-vertebrate) including all animals excluding the chordate subphylum Vertebrata, i.e. vertebrates. Well-known phyla of invertebrates include arthropods, mollusks, annelids... 41 KB (4,736 words) - 08:12, 11 April 2024 |
Vertebrate Palaeontology is a basic textbook on vertebrate paleontology by Michael J. Benton, published by Blackwell's. It has so far appeared in four... 4 KB (372 words) - 09:41, 26 March 2024 |
Eye (redirect from Eye (vertebrate)) evolved in 96% of animal species in six of the ~35 main phyla. In most vertebrates and some molluscs, the eye allows light to enter and project onto a light-sensitive... 59 KB (7,456 words) - 16:12, 25 April 2024 |
Agnatha (redirect from Jawless vertebrates) ostracoderms) species. Among recent animals, cyclostomes are sister to all vertebrates with jaws, known as gnathostomes. Molecular data, both from rRNA and... 41 KB (2,703 words) - 16:50, 25 April 2024 |
Anamniotes (redirect from Lower vertebrate) the 20th century, may refer to anamniotes as "lower vertebrates" and amniotes as "higher vertebrates", based on the antiquated idea of the evolutionary... 6 KB (606 words) - 02:26, 10 April 2024 |
Evolution of the Vertebrates, subtitled "A History of the Backboned Animals Through Time" is a basic paleontology textbook by Edwin H. Colbert, published... 4 KB (425 words) - 19:38, 5 October 2021 |
Fish (category Obsolete vertebrate taxa) A fish (pl.: fish or fishes) is an aquatic, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fins and a hard skull, but lacking limbs with digits... 101 KB (10,032 words) - 03:01, 24 April 2024 |
Accommodation is the process by which the vertebrate eye changes optical power to maintain a clear image or focus on an object as its distance varies.... 38 KB (4,654 words) - 11:06, 27 March 2024 |
The kidneys are a pair of organs of the excretory system in vertebrates, which maintains the balance of water and electrolytes in the body (osmoregulation)... 48 KB (5,357 words) - 21:07, 31 December 2023 |
This is an incomplete list that briefly describes vertebrates that were extant during the Maastrichtian, a stage of the Late Cretaceous Period which extended... 114 KB (162 words) - 10:38, 25 April 2024 |
Many vertebrates are limbless, limb-reduced, or apodous, with a body plan consisting of a head and vertebral column, but no adjoining limbs such as legs... 8 KB (905 words) - 06:31, 4 February 2024 |
Amphibians are ectothermic, anamniotic, four-limbed vertebrate animals that constitute the class Amphibia. In its broadest sense, it is a paraphyletic... 158 KB (17,759 words) - 16:52, 11 April 2024 |
The Museum of Vertebrate Zoology is a natural history museum at the University of California, Berkeley. The museum was founded by philanthropist Annie... 3 KB (172 words) - 16:50, 30 September 2022 |
The Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal that was established in 1980 by Jiri Zidek (University of Oklahoma)... 2 KB (96 words) - 14:11, 29 April 2023 |
or crystalline lens, is a transparent biconvex structure in most land vertebrate eyes. Along with the cornea, aqueous and vitreous humours it refracts... 51 KB (6,256 words) - 03:04, 24 April 2024 |
The domestication of vertebrates is the mutual relationship between vertebrate animals including birds and mammals, and the humans who have influence... 70 KB (7,806 words) - 18:18, 22 February 2024 |
Vertebrate visual opsins are a subclass of ciliary opsins and mediate vision in vertebrates. They include the opsins in human rod and cone cells. They... 10 KB (991 words) - 01:43, 1 December 2023 |
The vertebrate land invasion refers to the transition of vertebrate animals from being aquatic/semiaquatic to predominantly terrestrial during the Late... 15 KB (1,973 words) - 14:34, 18 March 2024 |
Ear (redirect from Ear (vertebrate)) through its relationship with earwax and the ear canals. The ears of vertebrates are placed somewhat symmetrically on either side of the head, an arrangement... 58 KB (6,786 words) - 18:21, 17 April 2024 |
exclusively discusses the vertebrate central nervous system, which is radically distinct from all other animals. In vertebrates, the brain and spinal cord... 34 KB (3,668 words) - 17:57, 7 April 2024 |