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What other name for it can you show for animals with no backbones or skeletons?

Invertebrates are animals without backbones, such as worms, shellfish, and in almost all vertebrates, bone gives the skeleton its strength.


What kind of animals dont have backbones?

Animals that do not have backbones are called invertebrates. Some examples of invertebrates include arthropods (such as spiders, crabs, insects, etc), worms, jellyfish, molluscs (such as snails and octopi), sponges, and more. Interesting to note is that there are far more insects than there are animals with backbones, whether you count by number of species, amount of biomass, or number of individuals.The invertebrates do not have backbones. They are mainly primitive animals. They usually have a less complex body design than those animals which have backbones.


What is the Correct term for animals that have no backbone?

Animals without an vertebral column, which would be a backbone or spine, are called Invertebrates.The "in" prefix of the word meaning "without" Therefore 'in'--without, 'vertebrate' --bone/s in the column of the spine.


What animals do not have backbones?

The animals with no backbones are earthworms, centipedes, millipedes, jellyfish, arthropods like spiders, flies, bees, beetles and grasshoppers, and cephalopods like octopi, crayfish, lobsters and shrimp, squid, clams, mollusks. These animals are all called invertebrates.worms and jellyfish have no backbones xx


What are invertrbrates animals?

Invertebrate animals are animals with out Backbones.