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Chordate
Peregrine Falcon
A Peregrine Falcon, the world's fastest animal.
Scientific Classification
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata

Chordata is a large phylum in the Animalia kingdom that includes the vertabrates with the sea squirts and lancelets.

Characteristics[]

They are distinguished by the possession of a notochord at some stage of their development.

Classes[]

Image
Name
Great Barracuda

Great Barracuda

Actinopterygii
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Amazonhornedfrog

Surinam Horned Frog

Amphibia
Amphibia is a class that includes the orders Gymnophiona (caecilians), Urodela (newts and salamanders) and Anura (frogs and toads).
SeaSquirt-1

A Golden-Mouth Sea Squirt

Ascidiacea
the Ascideans are another group of tunicates, primarily made up of sea squirts, sac-like marine creatures that filter feed on particles that float by, these creatures are typically unable to move.
Parrot in flight

Parrot in flight

Aves
Aves is a class consisting of birds, characterized by their wings and feathers.
Southern Stingray

Southern Stingray

Chondrichthyes
The class Chondricthyes contains cartilaginous fish, fish that have no true bone, but rather cartilage, this class contains sharks and rays
Lamprey-1

Lamprey

Hyperoartia
The class Hyperoartia contains Lampreys, similar to hagfish, Lampreys are jawless fishes with eel-shaped bodies with disc like mouths with rows of teeth
Larvacean-1

Bathocordaeus stygius

Larvacea
Larvaceans are solitary, free moving tunicates, they come in many different shapes. The photo shows an unusual type of larvacean, but most have a smaller, tadpole like shape
Lancelet

A lancelet

Leptocardii
The class Leptocardii consists of lancelets, fish-like creatures that are extremely small and streamlined.
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Brown Bear

Mammalia
The class Mammalia consists of mammals, characterized by their ability to give birth to live young and having fur on their skin.
Animal-creature

Hagfish

Myxini
The class Myxini contains hagfish, jawless, eel-shaped fish that typically live in deep waters, scavenging off carcasses in large groups.
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Snake

Reptilia
The class Reptilia consists of reptiles, characterized by having scales on their body and ability to lay eggs.
Coelocanth

A Coelacanth, a fish that lived before the dinosaurs and still lives today

Sarcopterygii
The class Sarcopterygii consists of Lobe Finned Fish, Fish with bony fins that somewhat resemble limbs, thought to be the ancestral bond between land and aquatic vertebrates, most prominently seen in the devonian period.
Tunicate-1

A species of tunicate

Sorberacea
The class sorberacea consists of benthic tunicates, somewhat similar to larvaceans
Tunicate-2

A species of tunicate

Thaliacea
The class Thaliacea consists of marine species of tunicates, differing from Sorberaceans because of the fact that they are not benthic and float across the ocean for their entire life span, they can be solitary or colonial.

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