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  • Chondrichthyes
    Cartilaginous fishes with light and flexible skeleton and continuous production/replacement of teeth (sharks, rays, skates)
  • Actinopterygii
    Class of ray-finned fishes with swim bladder, gill cover, and scales in most, and an ossified skeleton. (alligator gar, tuna, perch, red fish, grouper, catfish)
  • Actinistia
    Class of lobe-finned fishes, coelacanths.
  • Dipnoi

    The class of lungfishes.
  • lobe-finned fishes

    These fishes are ancestors to amphibians.
  • amphibia
    the class of vertebrates that live on land but breed in water (frogs, salamanders, caecilians)
  • amphibians
    The first terrestrial vertebrates.
  • 3
    How many heart chambers do amphibians have?
  • anura
    order of frogs and toads
  • caudata
    order of salamanders and newts
  • apoda
    order of caecilians
  • reptiles
    The first vertebrates to develop the amniotic egg.
  • Reptilia
    Class of vertebrates with internal fertilization, dry skin, and thoracic breathing. (turtles, crocodiles, tuataras, lizards, snakes)
  • 3
    How many heart chambers do reptiles have? (besides crocodiles)
  • 4
    How many heart chambers do crocodiles have?
  • Chelonia
    order of turtles and tortoises
  • Rhynchocephalia
    Order of tuataras
  • Squamata
    Order of lizards and snakes
  • Crocodilia
    order containing alligators, crocodiles, caimans, and gharials
  • Aves
    class of birds
  • keel

    What do birds use to flight skeleton?
  • 4
    How many heart chambers do birds have?
  • aminotes
    member of a clade of tetrapods that have an amniotic egg containing specialized membranes that protect the embryo (reptiles, birds, mammals)
  • mammalia
    The defining characteristics of this class include hair and mammary glands.
  • placenta
    A structure that allows an embryo to be nourished with the mother's blood supply in mammals.
  • 4
    How many heart chambers do mammals have?
  • Prototheria
    Subclass of monotremes.
  • monotremes
    egg-laying mammals (platypus, echidna)
  • Theria
    subclass of marsupials, placentals that have live birth.
  • Metatheria
    Infraclass of marsupials
  • Eutheria
    Infraclass of placental mammals (rodents, bats, dogs, whales, humans)
  • amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals
    tetrapods include
  • carnivora
    Order of bears, cats, raccoons, and dogs.
  • primates
    order of mammals that includes monkeys, apes, and humans
  • New world monkeys

    All species are arboreal. Nostrils open to the side. Many have prehensile tails.
  • Old World Monkeys

    Include arboreal and terrestrial species. Lack prehensile tails and their nostrils open downward
  • Cebidae
    family of new world monkeys
  • Cercopithecidae
    Family of old world monkeys
  • Hominidae
    Family of human-like primates, anthropoids, great apes, hominids, gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans, and modern humans.
  • opposable thumb

    Thumb that enables grasping objects and using tools. Seen in primates.