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Coral is an invertebrate, because it doesn't have a spine. Vertebrates do have spines. Invertebrates would be animals such as snails, worms, and sponges. Vertebrates would be animals such as monkeys, elephants, and anything else you can think of that has a spine.

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Coral are invertebrates (class anthazoa, phylum cnidaria- the latter occupies a position on the evolutionary tree between sponges and protostomes (insects etc) so they are very different from vertebrates which are above protostomes in deuterostoma

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Invertebrates.

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