Ch. 35 Flashcards
What do you call a chordate with a backbone?
Vertebrates
What do you call jawless fishes?
Cyclostomata
What do you call fishes with jaws?
Gnathostomes
What do you call gnathostomes with four limbs?
Tetrapods
What do you call tetrapods with desiccation-resistant egg?
Amniotes
Vertebrates are distinguished by having what chordate features?
-Vertebral Column
-Cranium
-Endoskeleton of cartilage and bone
What do you call milk producing amniotes?
Mammals
What is an example of a cyclostomata?
Lamphreys and hagfish
What is an example of chondricthyes?
Sharks and rays
What group has cartilaginous skeletons, teeth not fused to jaw, well developed fins, no swim bladder, internal fertilization, and single blood circulation?
Chondricthyes
What group has ossified skeletons, single gill opening covered by operculum, fin muscles within body, and a swim bladder?
Actinopterygii
What is an example of actinopterygii
Ray finned fishes
What group has ossified skeletons, bony extensions, muscles, and projectoral and pelvic fins?
Sarcopterygii
What is an example of sarcopterygii
lungfished and lobbed fishes
What group has adults able to live on land, fresh water needed for reproduction, metamorphosis, double circulation and lungs?
Amphibia
What are examples of amphibia?
Frogs, toads, salamanders
What clade has an encased body in a hard shell, no teeth, head and neck retraction into shell, and eggs laid on land?
Testudines
What is an example of a testudine?
Turtles
What clade has a lower jaw not attached to its skull and skin covered in scales?
Squamata
What is an example of squamata?
Lizards and snakes
What clade has a four chambered heart, large aquatic predators, parental care of young?
Crocodilia
What is an example of crocodilia?
Crocodiles and alligators
What clade has feathers, hollow bones, air sacs, reduced internal organs, endothermic, and a four chambered heart?
Aves
What are examples of aves?
Birds
What clade has hair, mammary glands, specialized teeth, enlarged skulls, external ears, endothermic, four chambered heart, highly developed brains, diversity of body forms?
Mammalia
What are examples of mammalia?
Mammals- rats, humans, chimps