Title: The chordates
Identifier: chordates00rand (find matches)
Year: 1950 (1950s)
Authors: Rand, Herbert W. (Herbert Wilbur), 1872-1960
Subjects: Chordata
Publisher: Philadelphia : Blakiston
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library

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Fig. 194. All the animals of this motley collection possess the backbone and the basic structure of backboned animals—illustrating the extreme plasticity of the vertebrate "pattern." (1) Dove. (2) Lizard. (3) Bat. (4) Crane. (5) Phyllop- teryx (a small Pacific fish which looks like a tangled tuft of seaweed). (6) Elephant. (7) Giraffe. (8, 9, 10) Corresponding views (front) of, respectively, a man, an ape, and a batfish. (11) Toad. (12) Snake. (13) Fish. (1 and 4, courtesy, Saunders: "Manual of British Birds," London, Gurney & Jackson. 2, courtesy, Cope: "The Crocodilians, Lizards and Snakes of North America," Washington, The Smithsonian Institution. 3 and 9, courtesy, Vogt and Specht: "Die Saugetiere in Wort und Bild," Munich, F. Bruckmann-Verlag. 5, from "Cambridge Natural History," Vol. VII. By permission of the Macmillan Company, publishers. 6 and 7, courtesy, Flower and Lydekker: "Introduction to the Study of Mammals," London, A. & C. Black, Ltd. 8, "David," by Michelangelo. 10, courtesy, Jordan and Evermann: "Fishes of North and Middle America," Washington, The Smith- sonian Institution. 11, by permission from "Biology of the Amphibia," by Noble, Copyrighted 1931, McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc. 12, courtesy, "Brehm's Thier- leben," Leipzig, Bibliographisches Institut. 13, courtesy, Neal and Rand: "Chor- date Anatomy," Philadelphia, The Blakiston Company.) 229

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