Vertebrates / Invertebrates - Lesson 1/2

• Vertebrates


  These are the animals with backbone.
• 5 Classification of vertebrates

  1. Fishes 2. Amphibians 3. Reptiles 4. Birds 5. Mammals
• Chordates


  A group of diverse animals under the phylum chordata.
• Fishes


  Come in various shapes colors, sizes. They have gills to breathe and fins to swim
• Jawless fish, Agnatha 


  Is the oldest class of fish
• Lamprey eel


  Has a distinguishing feature of a toothed, funnel-like sucking mouth
• Hagfish


  Is an eel-shaped, slime-producing marine animal
• Cartilaginous fish or Chondrichthyes


  Have skeleton made of rigid, rubber-like cartilage rather than bone
• 1. Great white sharks 2. Stingray


  Examples of cartilaginous fish or chondrichthyes
• Bony fish or Osteichthyes


  Have skeleton and bony scales
• 1. tuna 2. Clown fish 3. puffer fish 4. Lung fish


  Examples of bony fish or osteichthyes
• Puffer fish


  Is the second most poisonous vertebrate in the world
• Amphibians


  Have moist skin start their life underwater and live on land as they mature
• 1. Salamander 2. Newt 3. Frog 4. Toad 5. Caecilians 


  Examples of amphibians
• Reptiles 


  Have scaly skin and breathe through their lungs
• 1. Snake 3. Turtle 4. tortoise 5. Alligator 6. Crocodile 7. Gecko 8. lizards 9. iguana 10. Tuatara 11. Comodo


  Examples of reptiles
• Cobra


  A carnivorous reptile that is very venomous
• Alligator


  an anti social animal
• Birds 


  Are vertebrates that have feathers and wings they also lay eggs containing their young
• Birds


  They walk and run but not as well as four legged animals
• 1. parrot 2. Chicken 3. Dove 4. peacock


  Examples of birds
• 1. ostrich 2. Kiwi 4. Penguin 5. Emu


  Flightless birds.
• Philippine eagle


  Is our national bird and the largest eagle in the world
• Maya


  Is a eurasian three sparrow
• Mammals


  they have fur or a hairy coat as body covering. they have body parts that make milk which they feed their young
• They are also warm blooded animals

  Mammals
• Examples of mammals

  1. Cat 2. Dog 3. Horse 4. Dolphin 5. Monkey
• Kinds of mammals

  1. monotremes 2. marsupials 3. Placental mammals
• Monotremes


  Are the only group of mammals that lay eggs
• Examples of monotremes

  1. echidna 2. Duck billed platypus
• Marsupials


  Are pouched mammals
• Example of marsupials

  Kangaroo
• Placental mammals


  Are marked by the presence of a placenta where the exchange of nutrients and waste between the blood of the mother and the fetus takes place.
• 1. Puffer fish 2. eel 3. seahorse


  Example of fishes
• Invertebrates 


  are animals that have no backbone
• sponges


  are living animals that live in the water, they are stuck to the floor.
• examples of sponge

  corals, demo sponge, porifera
• mollusks


  are invertebrate animals with a soft unsegmented body
• examples of mollusks

  clam, snail, squid, oyster, octopus
• arthropods


  have an exoskeleton a three part body head, thorax, abdomen.