Chordate

id: chordate-169-2239456
title: Chordate
text: A chordate is a deuterostomic bilaterial animal belonging to the phylum Chordata. All chordates possess, at some point during their larval or adult stages, five distinctive physical characteristics (synapomorphies) that distinguish them from other taxa. These five synapomorphies are a notochord, a hollow dorsal nerve cord, an endostyle or thyroid, pharyngeal slits, and a post-anal tail. The name "chordate" comes from the first of these synapomorphies, the notochord, which plays a significant rol
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description: Phylum of animals having a dorsal nerve cord
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chordate
date created: 2001-03-07T20:44:08Z
date modified: 2024-08-31T13:54:07Z
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image: {"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/Chordata.png","width":1300,"height":1000}
fields total: 13
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