These structures are the vertebrae, and for this reason the subphylum is called Vertebrata (vur'tih-bray'tuh) and its members commonly referred to as the vertebrates.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Brain]

And here you have evidence of such a unity of plan among all the animals which have backbones, and which we technically call "Vertebrata".    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures and Essays] Reference

Vertebrata than do the ordinary or osseous fishes.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Genesis of Species] Reference

Or to turn to the higher Vertebrata — in what sense are the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays] Reference

This is the essence of the brain throughout all the classes of Vertebrata.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Brain]

On the theory of evolution most in favour, the first Vertebrata were aquatic.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Genesis of Species] Reference

Enteropneusta and Vertebrata, together with the formation from the ectoderm of a dorsal nerve tube.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

Among the Vertebrata, however, there are a few examples which appear to be far less open to objection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays] Reference

Vertebrata have diverged, as is evidenced from the degree of specialization which their structure presents.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Genesis of Species] Reference

Turning to the Vertebrata, the only Paleozoic Elasmobranch Fish of which we have any complete knowledge is the Devonian and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays] Reference

It is, in fact, true of several groups of Vertebrata which have lived through a considerable range of time, that the endoskeleton.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays] Reference

Such an obvious and unmistakeable serial repetition of parts does not obtain in the highest, or backboned animals, the Vertebrata.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Genesis of Species] Reference

He was certainly aware of differences as well as similarities, and limited it to the level of classes, not the subphyllum Vertebrata.    From Wordnik.com.  [Haeckel on gastrulation - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

He proposed to replace Cuvier's classification of the animal kingdom into the four large groups, Vertebrata, Mollusca, Articulata, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

Geoffroy's principle of the unity of plan and composition to the three great metameric groups, the Annelida, Arthropoda, and Vertebrata.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

But as such they occur in all air-breathing Vertebrata.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions] Reference

Vertebrata, the heart is constructed upon the fish-like type.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions] Reference

Vertebrata are in any sense embryonic in their whole structure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures and Essays] Reference

Specimens of the Vertebrata, illustrations of Physical Geography and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1] Reference

Or to turn to the higher Vertebrata -- in what sense are the Liassic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures and Essays] Reference

Vertebrata, and more particularly of the Mammalia "" Proceedings of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3] Reference

But in the air-breathing Vertebrata such an arrangement would obviously be of no use.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions] Reference

And I think the same remark applies to a whole sub-kingdom in the case of Vertebrata.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions] Reference

In all existing fish and other gill-breathing Vertebrata, this arrangement is permanent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions] Reference

Vertebrata, however, there are a few examples which appear to be far less open to objection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures and Essays] Reference

Vertebrata this structure is not itself destined to become the permanent or bony vertebral column.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions] Reference

The passage referred to seems to be in Owen's "Anatomy of Vertebrata," III., pages 798, 799, note.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference

So much then for an outline sketch of the main features in the embryonic history of the Vertebrata.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions] Reference

Craniata = all "true Vertebrata": fishes, amphibia, reptiles, birds, and mammals (Vertebrata of Balfour).    From Wordnik.com.  [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference

The first Vertebrata to appear in the fossil history of the world are fishes; fish spines and placoid scales.    From Wordnik.com.  [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference

Each of the three orders of which this third class of Vertebrata is composed has its own particular history besides.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals] Reference

There is a total absence of all terrestrial Vertebrata, other than those which are known to have been introduced by man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions] Reference

Turning to the Vertebrata, the only Paleozoic Elasmobranch Fish of which we have any complete knowledge is the Devonian and Carboniferous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures and Essays] Reference