Chordate

Chordate
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	Actinopterygii
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Surinam Horned Frog	Amphibia
	Amphibia is a class that includes the orders Gymnophiona (caecilians), Urodela (newts and salamanders) and Anura (frogs and toads).
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	Aves
	Aves is a class consisting of birds, characterized by their wings and feathers.
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	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
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
A lancelet	Leptocardii
	The class Leptocardii consists of lancelets, fish-like creatures that are extremely small and streamlined.
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.
Hagfish	Myxini
	The class Myxini contains hagfish, jawless, eel-shaped fish that typically live in deep waters, scavenging off carcasses in large groups.
Snake	Reptilia
	The class Reptilia consists of reptiles, characterized by having scales on their body and ability to lay eggs.
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.
A species of tunicate	Sorberacea
	The class sorberacea consists of benthic tunicates, somewhat similar to larvaceans
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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