Phylum Chordata Kingdom Animalia -

Phylum Chordata Kingdom Animalia - chordata The Chordata is the animal phylum with which everyone is most intimately familiar, since it includes humans and other vertebrates However, not all chordates chordata Chordata · Subphylum Cephalochordata · Subphylum Tunicata · Subphylum Vertebrata · Subphylum Urochordata accepted as Tunicata Environment

chordata The Phylum Chordata is named for the stiffened rod that extends down the back, called a notochord Chordates have segmented external muscles, a an aorta below

chordata Chordata · Taxonavigation · Name · Classifications · References · Vernacular names  An extensive vertebrate fossil record begins about 400 million years ago Embryological evidence places the phylum Chordata within the