any member of either of two invertebrate subphyla of the phylum Chordata: the Tunicata (sea squirts, salps, etc.) and the Cephalochordata (amphioxus). Like the remaining subphylum of the chordates, the Vertebrata, the protochordates have a hollow dorsal nerve cord, gill slits, and a stiff supporting rod, the notochord, the forerunner of the backbone. The protochordates differ chiefly from the vertebrates in not having a backbone. Recent protochordates are thought to have evolved from the same ancestral stock as that which gave rise to the vertebrates.
They live in waters mainly of the Indian Ocean, Red Sea, and southwest Pacific Ocean. They are herbivore marine mammals. Their species is vulnerable which is near to become endagered.
It uses it for breeding purpose's. go to the link bellow to find out more.
the reasons they are endangered are
killed by boats, suffication of nets, lost of habitat and eatble flesh