vertebrate, craniate

animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium

• fetus, foetus — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate in the later stages of development showing the main recognizable features of the mature animal
• Amniota — higher vertebrates (reptiles; birds; mammals) possessing an amnion during development
• amniote — any member of the Amniota
• aquatic vertebrate — animal living wholly or chiefly in or on water
• gnathostome — a vertebrate animal possessing true jaws
• bird — warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings
• amphibian — cold-blooded vertebrate typically living on land but breeding in water; aquatic larvae undergo metamorphosis into adult form
• reptile, reptilian — any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises turtles snakes lizards alligators crocodiles and extinct forms
• mammal — any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk
• tetrapod — a vertebrate animal having four feet or legs or leglike appendages

• chordate — any animal of the phylum Chordata having a notochord or spinal column

• belly — the underpart of the body of certain vertebrates such as snakes or fish
• tail — the posterior part of the body of a vertebrate especially when elongated and extending beyond the trunk or main part of the body
• caudal appendage — tail especially of a mammal posterior to and above the anus
• rib, costa — any of the 12 pairs of curved arches of bone extending from the spine to or toward the sternum in humans (and similar bones in most vertebrates)
• thorax, chest, pectus — the part of the human body between the neck and the diaphragm or the corresponding part in other vertebrates
• vertebrate foot, pedal extremity — the extremity of the limb in vertebrates
• digit, dactyl — a finger or toe in human beings or corresponding part in other vertebrates

• Vertebrata, subphylum Vertebrata, Craniata, subphylum Craniata — fishes; amphibians; reptiles; birds; mammals