- Members of the phylum Chordata are bilaterally symmetric , deuterostome coelomates , and the vertebrate chordates display segmentation . (infogalactic.com)
- The current consensus is that chordates are monophyletic , meaning that the Chordata include all and only the descendants of a single common ancestor, which is itself a chordate, and that craniates' nearest relatives are cephalochordates. (infogalactic.com)
- Phylum Chordata Chordates. (slideplayer.com)
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- Chordata (kôrdā´tə,-dä´-) , phylum of animals having a notochord, or dorsal stiffening rod, as the chief internal skeletal support at some stage of their development. (encyclopedia.com)
- It includes nonvertebrate animals having a NOTOCHORD during some developmental stage. (lookformedical.com)
- Both the Hemichordata and Chordata have gill slits, and primitive fossil echinoderms also show signs of gill slits. (wikipedia.org)
- 1 Phyla Hemichordata and Chordata Zoology- Mrs. Adams. (slideplayer.com)
- Although the name Chordata is attributed to William Bateson (1885), it was already in prevalent use by 1880. (infogalactic.com)
- Chordata" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) . (harvard.edu)
- Thus modern invertebrate paleontologists deal largely with fossils of this more strictly defined Animal Kingdom (excepting Phylum Chordata), Phylum Chordata being the exclusive focus of vertebrate paleontology. (wikipedia.org)
- This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Chordata" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Chordata" was a major or minor topic of these publication. (harvard.edu)
- It belongs to the phylum Chordata, which also includes mammals, birds and fish. (theoldguardofprinceton.org)
- It includes nonvertebrate animals having a NOTOCHORD during some developmental stage. (lookformedical.com)