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acanthodians |
EXTINCT gnathostome fish; bodies had rows of spines along the tops and sides |
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actinopterygians |
bony fish that are "ray-finned". Include most extant fish |
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agnathans |
jawless fish, mostly EXTINCT |
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amniotes |
require a fluid-filled amnion during gestation. includes reptiles, birds, and mammals |
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What are the animals that are known as amniotes? |
Reptiles, birds, and mammals |
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anamniotes |
Vertebrates that do not require an amnion because it occurs in water. Includes fishes and amphibians. |
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What are the animals that are known as anamniotes?? |
Fish and amphibians |
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anurans |
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What are the animals in the group anurans? |
Frogs and toads |
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Caecilians |
limbless amphibians. "without feet" |
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cetaceans |
whales, dolphins, porpoises |
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chelonians |
turtles and tortoises |
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chiropterans |
bats |
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chondrichthyans |
cartilaginous fish, includes sharks, skates, rays, ratfish |
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Coelacanths |
"lobe-finned" fish with fleshy appendages, was extinct until 1938. |
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Cyclostomes |
living members of superclass agnatha, hagfish and lampreys |
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dipnoans |
lobe finned fish that includes 17 extinct families and 3 extant species of lungfish |
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elasmobranches |
sharks and rays |
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eutherians |
"true" placenta, mammals |
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gnathostomes |
vertebrates with jaws, excludes agnathans |
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holocephalans |
lack scales, RATFISH |
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insectivores |
mammals that live by dining on insects. Includes shrews, hedgehogs, and moles |
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labyrinthodonts |
EXTINCT class of early tetrapods named for their funky teeth |
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lagomorphs |
hares, rabbits, pikas |
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lissamphibians |
all extant amphibians. Frogs, salamanders, caecilians |
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Marsupials |
therian animals that include kangaroos, koalas, and opossums |
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monotremes |
"primitive" non-placental mammals including platypus and anteaters |
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neopterygians |
bony fish including teleosts and more "primitive" fish such as gars and bowfins |
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osteichthyans |
bony fish |
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ostracoderms |
EXTINCT jawless fish that had bony head shields |
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placoderms |
EXTINCT gnathostome fish with external body plates |
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rhipidistians |
EXTINCT sarcopterygian fish related to tetrapods |
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ruminants |
mammals including bison, sheep, giraffes, deer, that possess a rumen for incubated indigested plant material |
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sarcopterygians |
bony fish that are "lobe finned" includes extant dipnoans and coelacanths |
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sirenians |
manatees and dugongs |
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squamates |
lizards, snakes, amphisbaenids |
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teleosts |
"advanced" ray-finned fish including salmon, seahorses, perch, minnows, and catfish |
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tetrapods |
all vertebrates with limbs, includes caecilian and snakes |
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therapsids |
EXTINCT reptiles that had some features in common with mammals like their stance and teeth |
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therians |
mammals with some sort of placenta, includes eutherians and metatherians |
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ungulates |
hoofed animals |
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urodeles |
"tailed" amphibians including salamanders and newts |
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Are ostracoderms jawless or do they have jaws? |
jawless |