Meanings of vertebrata in English

But even among the vertebrata; who has ever seen a furious rabbit?

Skull and brain of Amphioxus shut up like an opera-hat in higher vertebrata.

Probably, in the primitive vertebrata, the entire alimentary canal was lined with ciliated cells.

How could vertebrata be predominant under the conditions of life in which parasitic worms live?

I only met with one other example amongst the vertebrata, and it was also a reptile.

This applies to the sponges and other zoophyta, and to the worms, the mollusca, echinoderma, articulata, and vertebrata.

Among the vertebrata the degree of intellect and an approach in structure to man clearly come into play.

I have been working very hard lately at the lower vertebrata, and getting out results which will interest you greatly.

Fourteen segments or thereabouts in Amphioxus; all but one (barring possibilities about the ear capsule) aborted in higher vertebrata.

In this are comprised the six higher stems of the animal kingdom, the annulata and their descendants, the mollusca, echinoderma, articulata, tunicata, and vertebrata.

I think Embryology, Homology, Classification, etc., etc., show us that all vertebrata have descended from one parent; how that parent appeared we know not.

In these rocks many fresh varieties of invertebrate fossils are found, and the vertebrata make their first appearance, numerous remains of fishes having been discovered.

With regard to the descent of the great Kingdoms (as Vertebrata, Articulata, etc.)

See "A Catalogue of British Fossil Vertebrata," A.S. Woodward and C.D.

So much then for an outline sketch of the main features in the embryonic history of the Vertebrata.

AMPHIOXUS, or LANCELET, the name of small, fish-like, marine creatures, forming the class Cephalochorda, of the phylum Vertebrata.