The other ectozoal species attack vertebrated animals, and several attach themselves to man himself.
My plan, therefore, is to devote separate sections of this work to the parasites of the different classes of vertebrated animals, including man, treating of the various species in regular succession.
Bones of vertebrated animals are rare in the loess, but those of the mammoth, horse, and some other quadrupeds have been met with.
These two layers were first discovered in the young embryos of vertebrated animals by Pander and Von Baer, and have been since known as the germinal layers, though their cellular nature was not at first recognised.
On the development of the vascular system of the foetus of Vertebrated Animals.
List of the Vertebrated Animals Now or Lately Living in the Gardens of the Zool.
List of Vertebrated Animals Now or Lately Living in the Garden of the Zool.
In these the tail-fin isvertebrated and yet symmetrical.
My present task is to demonstrate that there is no part of the bony framework of fishes that cannot find its analogue in the other vertebrated animals.
Can the organisation of vertebrated animals be referred to one uniform type?
As the fishes develop these teeth scales in the geological record, they swim out of the hidden darkness of the past into the light, the first vertebrated animals visible in the record.
This is something that the world had not seen before among vertebrated animals.
These were the first flying creatures with backbones; they mark a new achievement in the growing powers of vertebrated life.
There are no signs whatever of land life of any sort, plant or animal; there are no fishes nor any vertebrated creatures in this part of the record.
For example all the higher vertebrated animals above the fishes, up to and including man, pass through a stage in their development in the egg or before birth in which they have gill slits which are obliterated before the young emerge.
These varied modifications of the vertebrated type, for special purposes, are unmistakable examples of final causation.
The three groups of vertebrated animals, articulated animals, and molluscs are so much in accordance with nature that they are retained, even at the present day, little altered in extent.
Mammals, then, are vertebrated animals, possessing the normal characteristics of the members of that primary division of the animal kingdom.
These possess neither brain nor spinal cord; their nerve-centres, instead of being concentrated in a cranium and vertebral canal, are entirely disseminated through the cavities of the trunk, as are the visceral plexuses in vertebrated animals.
The vertebrated sub-kingdom has, as far as yet known, no representative in these lowest beds.
Among these were some genera belonging to the higher forms of invertebrate life, but apparently as yet no vertebrated animals.
In the case of the vertebrated land animals, the gills of the ancestral fish were first supplemented and then replaced by a bag-like growth from the throat, the primitive lung swimming-bladder.
Illustration: Some Oligocene Mammals] From the appearance of the vertebrated animals in the Lower Palæozoic Age, when the fish first swarmed out into the sea, there has been a steady progressive development of vertebrated creatures.
A fish is a vertebrated animal that breathes by gills and can live only in water.
To this day there survive certain mudfish which enable us to understand very clearly the method by which the vertebrated land animals worked their way out of the water.
These creatures still remain at the transition stage, the stage at which the ancestors of the higher vertebrated animals were released from their restriction to an under-water life.
The water-population of vertebrated animals first appears in the Upper Silurian.
I allude, of course, to Amphioxus, which is by far the most primitive or generalized type of vertebrated animal hitherto discovered.
In most vertebrated animals this process of gastrulation has been more or less superseded by another, which is called delamination; but it scarcely seems necessary for our present purposes to describe the latter.
Or why, among the thousands of vertebrated species, should no one of their eyes be constructed on the ideal pattern that was devised for the cuttle-fish?
Take, for example, what is perhaps the most wonderful instance of refined mechanism in nature--the eye of a vertebrated animal.
The most generalized or primitive types of limb hitherto discovered in any vertebrated animal above the class of fishes, are those which are met with in some of the extinct aquatic reptiles.
Even without any anatomical dissection, the similarity of all vertebrated embryos at comparable stages of development admits of being strikingly shown, if we merely place the embryos one beside the other.
It would be plunging back into confusion to attempt to examine all the vertebrated classes at once.
Crag of Norfolk and Suffolk, fossil vertebrated animals of, xxxi, 339.
Among the reptilian characters are its long, vertebrated tail, teeth set in sockets, and long claws on the wings.
In marked contrast to the most typical and highly organized fishes so abundant to-day, all Devonian fishes were of simple types with cartilaginous skeletons and vertebrated tails.
It had a long vertebrated tail, claws on the ends of the wings, and teeth.
Tiedemann on the brain of the foetus in vertebrated animals.
We must not, therefore, too hastily infer, from the absence of fossil bones of mammalia in the older rocks, that the highest class of vertebrated animals did not exist in remoter ages.
For a further explanation, see "Vertebrated Animals.
An order of vertebrated mammiferous animals inhabiting the sea.
And they think I'm going to crawl about on my stomach--on my vertebrated stomach!
The class Mammalia is scientifically defined as "all animals which have a vertebrated skeleton and suckle their young.
A Manual of the Anatomy of Vertebrated Animals," 1871.
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