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Vertebrates

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an animal that has a backbone

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Endotherms

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warm blooded

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Ectotherms

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cold blooded

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4
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Lateral Line

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a faint line visible on both sides of a fish’s body that runs the length of the body and marks the location of sense organs that detect vibration in water

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5
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Gills

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a respiratory organ in which oxygen from the water is exhanged with carbon dioxide from the blood

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Jawless Fishes

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A fish with no jaws - Heterostraci Arandaspidiformes

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7
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Cartilaginous Fishes

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Shaerk , Batoids, Chimaera

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Bony Fishes

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catfish, cichlid, actinopterygii

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9
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Swim Bladder

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a gas-filled sac that is used to control buoyancy; also known as gas bladder

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Amphibians

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a cold-blooded vertebrate animal of a class that comprises the frogs toads newts and salamanders they are distinguished by having an aquatic gill-breathing larval stage followed by a terrestrial lung-breathing adult stage

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Lungs

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a respiratory organ in which oxygen from the air is exchanged with carbon dioxide from the blood

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Tadpole

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the aquatic fish-shaped larve of a frog or toad

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Metamorphosis

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a phase in the life cycle of many animals during which a rapid change from the immature form of an organism to the adult form takes place

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Caecilians

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are a group of limbless amphibeans

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15
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Salamanders

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are a group of anphbinains characterized as a lizard like aperence

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16
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Frogs

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are tailless anphbinans

17
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Toads

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are a comman name given to certain frogs

18
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Reptiles

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are tetapod animals in the class reptila

19
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Amniotic Eggs

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are a claud of tetropod vetabrates

20
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Turtles

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are reptiles of the order testudines

21
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Tortoises

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are gaint turtles

22
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Crocodiles

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are large aquatic reptiles

23
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Alligators

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are in the family aligatoridea

24
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Snakes

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are scary carnivorous reptiles

25
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Lizards

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are a widespread of reptiles

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Tuataras

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are reptiles ecidemnic to new zealand