Pinniped is the latin word used to describe seals and sea lions, it basically means fin footed or web footed.
They are mammals from the family pinnipediaPinnipeds (from latin pinna, wing or fin, and ped- foot) or fin footed animalsLook at this page on wikipediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinniped
Marine Mammals Order : Pinnipedia
the latin word for fin is pinna (noun)
Yes they are vertebrates.
The root (in English) is fin-. The word finish entered English from French, which got it from Latin finis.
Dolphins
The root of the word "finally" is "fin-". This root can also be seen in the words finish, finality, finite, and infinity. The root "fin-" comes from the Latin word finis, meaning end.
On a dolphin and most fish the fin behind the dorsal fin is the tail fin. Some fish, such as knife fish, have no dorsal fin or tail fin. Dolphins of course are mammals, not fish.
Fin is the Spanish word for "End" as in "The End" at the end of a movie. The Spanish word for Fin as in the fin on a Fish or an airplane is "Aleta"
Fin whales are warm blooded as they are mammals. All mammals share similar characxteristics and one of them is that they are warm blooded creatures.
Kingdom:AnimaliaPhylum:ChordataSubphylum:VertebrataClass:MammaliaOrder:CarnivoraSuborder:Caniformia(unranked):PinnipediaTherefore seals are pinnipeds ( fin footed animals)
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