Vertebrate Zoology
Subtitle: Laboratory Exercises
Edition: 2nd Spiral edition
Publisher: Stipes Pub Llc
Published: May 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 79
ISBN-13: 9781588740632
Subjects: Life Sciences - Zoology - General; Science; Science/Mathematics
First sentence: The success of the chordates resulted in part from the presence of the following diagnostic morphological features that are present at some time during the life cycle: (1) a dorsal, hollow nerve cord that forms embryonically as a tube; (2) a notochord as the axial body support; (3) pharyngeal pouches or clefts (forming gill slits in fishes and larval amphibians); (4) an endostyle; and (5) muscular postanal tail.