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A tetrapod is a vertebrate animal with four limbs. "Tetra" means "four" and "pod" means "foot".
Amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals are all tetrapods; even snakes and other limbless reptiles and amphibians are tetrapods because they descended from animals which had four limbs. Whales and other cetaceans are also tetrapods because they are mammals have two front limbs and the two hind limbs are vestiges.
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A four footed animal?
tetrapod
Are curassows tetrapods?
No the curassow is not, in fact, a a tetrapod. The curassow is actually a type of bird that lives in South America as well as certain parts of Mexico as well.
Which animal is not a tetrapod?
Fish, and all invertebrates, as those have more than four legs or none at all. Only amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals classify as tetrapods.
Do all animals with backbones have four limbs?
For certain all higher animals do. It also depends on your meaning of limbs. But, all Chordata have a backbone. Only Vertebrate that does not have limbs, if your are defining limbs to be legs and arms, are the fish. The term use to describe 4 limbed animals is tetrapod.
Is a frog an amniote?
No they do not. The organisms that are classified as Amniota are birds, mammals, and reptiles. There organisms are believed to come from a primitive amniote in the precambrian era. The ancestor of the primitive amniote is an early tetrapod. This ancestor gave rise to ampbibians as well as the primitive amniote (which gave rise to mammals, reptiles, and birds). An Aminote just basically means that the organism has extraembryonic membranes (ie-allanotitic membrane, choronic membrane, yolk sac, and amniotic membrane).
How do you use the word tetrapod in a sentence?
My dog is a tetrapod! But so is your cat. A tetrapod has four limbs.
When was Tetrapod Spools created?
Tetrapod Spools was created in 1969.
Is a caecilian a tetrapod?
yes
A four footed animal?
tetrapod
Is an alligator a tetrapod?
Yes, since they have four feet.
Which tetrapod has a larval stage that breathes using gills?
Amphibians
What words start with tetra?
tetrad,tetrapod,tetralogy,tetrarchy.
What does the prefix Pod mean?
The prefix pod- as in podcast derives from the Apple ipod player. The suffix -pod as in tetrapod means feet. Tetrapod = four feet (ie four legged)
Are all mammals tetrapods?
Amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals are all tetrapod's. The tetrapod's evolved from the lobe-finned fishes about 395 million years ago in the Devonian Period.
What process do frogs undergo that physically changes them from from a tadpole to an adult tetrapod?
metamorphosis
What have you evolved from?
From my ancestors, which, like me, were human, great ape, ape, primate, mammal, tetrapod, vertebrate, animal eukaryotes.
When and where was the first fossil in Antarctica Found?
Peter Barrett is credited with finding the first tetrapod fossil in Antarctica in 1967.
