Cold-Blooded Vertebrate

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an animal of a large group distinguished by the possession of a backbone or spinal column, including mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes.

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Vertebrates

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an animal that is dependent on or capable of the internal generation of heat; a warm-blooded animal.

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Endotherm

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an animal that is dependent on external sources of body heat.

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Ectotherm

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a visible line along the side of a dish consisting of a series of sense organs that detect pressure and vibration.

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Lateral Line

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the paired respiratory organ of fishes and some amphibians, by which oxygen is extracted from water flowing over surfaces within or attached to the walls of the pharynx.

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Gill

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Agnatha is a superclass of jawless fish in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, consisting of both present and extinct species.

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Jawless fishes

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is a class that contains the cartilaginous fishes that have skeletons primarily composed of cartilage

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Cartilaginous fishes

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a fish of a large class distinguished by a skeleton of bone and comprising the majority of modern fishes.

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Bony fishes

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a gas-filled sac present in the body of many bony fishes used to maintain and control buoyancy.

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Swim bladder

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are a pair of spongy, air-filled organs located on either side of the chest?

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Lung

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is the larval stage in the life cycle of an amphibian

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Tadpole

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the process of transformation from an immature form to an adult form in two or more distinct stages.

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Metamorphosis

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are a group of limbless, vermiform or serpentine amphibians.

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Caecilians

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a group of amphibians typically characterized by a lizard-like appearance, with slender bodies, blunt snouts, short limbs projecting at right angles to the body, and the presence of a tail in both larvae and adults

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Salamanders

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is any member of a diverse and largely carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order Anura.

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Frogs

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a tailless amphibian with a short stout body and short legs, typically having dry warty skin that can exude poison.

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Toads

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The type of egg produced by reptiles, birds, and prototherian

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Amniotic egg

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are reptiles of the order Chelonia or Testudines. They are characterized by a special bony or cartilaginous shell developed from their ribs that acts as a shield.

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Turtles

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are reptile species of the family Testudinidae of the order Testudines. They are particularly distinguished from other turtles by being exclusively land-dwelling, while many other turtle species are at least partly aquatic

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Tortoises

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are large semiaquatic reptiles that live throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia.

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Crocodiles

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The two extant species are the American alligator and the Chinese alligator. Additionally, several extinct species of alligator are known from fossil remains

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Alligators

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are elongated, limbless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes.

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Snakes

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are a widespread group of squamate reptiles, with over 6,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains.

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Lizards

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are reptiles endemic to New Zealand, belonging to the genus Sphenodon. Although resembling most lizards, they are part of a distinct lineage, the order Rhynchocephalia.

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Tuataras