Vertebrate
Vertebrate | |
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Diversity of vertebrates: Acipenser oxyrinchus (Actinopterygii), an African bush elephant (Tetrapoda), a tiger shark (Chondrichthyes) and a river lamprey (Agnatha). | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Superphylum: | Deuterostomia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Olfactores |
Subphylum: | Vertebrata J-B. Lamarck, 1801[2] |
Infraphyla | |
Synonyms | |
Ossea Batsch, 1788[2] |
Vertebrates (/ˈvɜːrtəbrɪts, -ˌbreɪts/)[3] are animals with a backbone or spine, consisting of vertebrae and intervertebral discs, and a cranium, or skull. The vertebrae are irregular bones, and the intervertebral discs are of fibrocartilage. The vertebral column surrounds and protects the spinal cord, while the cranium protects the brain.
The vertebrates make up the subphylum Vertebrata with some 65,000 species, by far the largest grouping in the phylum Chordata. The vertebrates include mammals, birds, amphibians, and various classes of fish and reptiles. The fish include the jawless Agnatha, and the jawed Gnathostomata. The jawed fish include both the cartilaginous fish and the bony fish. Bony fish include the lobe-finned fish, which gave rise to the tetrapods, the animals with four limbs. Vertebrates make up less than five percent of all described animal species.
The first vertebrates appeared in the Cambrian explosion some 518 million years ago. Jawed vertebrates evolved in the Ordovician, followed by bony fishes in the Devonian. The first amphibians appeared on land in the Carboniferous. During the Jurassic, mammals appeared, alongside reptiles including dinosaurs, which gave rise to birds. Extant species are roughly equally divided between fishes of all kinds, and tetrapods.
Characteristics
[edit]Definition
[edit]In 1811, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck defined the vertebrates as a taxonomic group,[2] a phylum distinct from the invertebrates he was studying.[4] He described them as consisting of four classes, namely fish, reptiles, birds, and mammals,[5] but treated the cephalochordates and tunicates as molluscs.[4] In 1866, Ernst Haeckel called both his "Craniata" (vertebrates) and his "Acrania" (cephalochordates) "Vertebrata".[4] In 1877, Ray Lankester grouped the Craniates, cephalochordates, and "Urochordates (tunicates) as "Vertebrata".[4] In 1880–1881, Francis Maitland Balfour placed the Vertebrata as a subphylum within the Chordates.[4] In 2018, Naoki Irie and colleagues proposed making Vertebrata a full phylum.[4]
Physical
[edit]Vertebrates belong to the Bilateria, a group of animals with mirror symmetrical bodies.[7] They move, typically by swimming, using muscles along the back, supported by a strong but flexible skeletal structure, the spine or vertebral column.[6] The name 'vertebrate' derives from the Latin vertebratus ("jointed"),[8] from vertebra, "joint", in turn from Latin vertere to turn.[9]
Vertebrates belong to the chordates, a phylum characterised by a notochord, a hollow nerve cord along the back, and pharyngeal gills arranged in pairs. As embryos, vertebrates still have a notochord; as adults, all but the jawless fishes have a vertebral column, made of bone or cartilage, instead.[6] Vertebrate embryos have pharyngeal arches; in adult fish, these support the gills, while in adult tetrapods they develop into other structures.[10][11]
In the embryo, a layer of cells along the back folds and fuses into a hollow neural tube.[12] This develops into the spinal cord, and at its front end, the brain.[6] The brain receives information about the world through nerves which carry signals from sense organs in the skin and body.[13] Because the ancestors of vertebrates usually moved forwards, the front of the body encountered stimuli before the rest of the body, favouring cephalisation, the evolution of a head containing sense organs and a brain to process the sensory information.[14]
Vertebrates have a tubular gut that extends from the mouth to the anus. The vertebral column typically continues beyond the anus to form an elongated tail.[15] This means that (unlike in some invertebrates like annelid worms) the anus is not usually at the end of the body.[6]
The ancestral vertebrates, and most extant species, are aquatic and carry out gas exchange in their gills. The gills are finely-branched structures which bring the blood close to the water. They are positioned just behind the head, supported by cartilaginous or bony branchial arches.[16][6] In jawed vertebrates, the first gill arch pair evolved into the jaws.[17] In amphibians and some primitive bony fishes, the larvae have external gills, branching off from the gill arches.[18] Oxygen is carried from the gills to the body in the blood, and carbon dioxide is returned to the gills, in a closed circulatory system driven by a chambered heart.[6] The tetrapods have lost the gills of their fish ancestors; they have adapted the swim bladder (that fish use for buoyancy) into lungs to breathe air, and the circulatory system is adapted accordingly.[19] At the same time, they adapted the bony fins of the lobe-finned fishes into two pairs of walking legs, carrying the weight of the body via the shoulder and pelvic girdles.[19]
Vertebrates vary in size from the smallest frog species such as Brachycephalus pulex, with a minimum adult snout–vent length of 6.45 millimetres (0.254 in)[20] to the blue whale, at up to 33 m (108 ft) and weighing some 150 tonnes.[21]
Molecular
[edit]Molecular markers known as conserved signature indels (CSIs) in protein sequences have been identified and provide distinguishing criteria for the vertebrate subphylum.[22] Specifically, five CSIs in the following proteins: protein synthesis elongation factor-2, eukaryotic translation initiation factor 3, adenosine kinase and a protein related to ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal hydrolase are exclusively shared by all vertebrates and reliably distinguish them from all other animals.[22] A specific relationship between vertebrates and tunicates is strongly supported by two CSIs found in the proteins Rrp44 (associated with the exosome complex) and serine C-palmitoyltransferase. These are exclusively shared by species from these two subphyla, but not by cephalochordates.[22]
Evolutionary history
[edit]Cambrian explosion: first vertebrates
[edit]Vertebrates originated during the Cambrian explosion at the start of the Paleozoic, which saw a rise in animal diversity. The earliest known vertebrates belong to the Chengjiang biota[24] and lived about 518 million years ago.[1] These include Haikouichthys, Myllokunmingia,[24] Zhongjianichthys,[23] and probably Yunnanozoon.[25] Unlike other Cambrian animals, these groups had the basic vertebrate body plan: a notochord, rudimentary vertebrae, and a well-defined head and tail, but lacked jaws.[26] A vertebrate group of uncertain phylogeny, small eel-like conodonts, are known from microfossils of their paired tooth segments from the late Cambrian to the end of the Triassic.[27]
Paleozoic: from fish to amphibians
[edit]The first jawed vertebrates may have appeared in the late Ordovician (~445 mya) and became common in the Devonian period, often known as the "Age of Fishes".[29] The two groups of bony fishes, Actinopterygii and Sarcopterygii, evolved and became common.[30] By the middle of the Devonian, a lineage of sarcopterygii left the water,[31] establishing themselves as amphibians, terrestrial tetrapod vertebrates, in the next geological period, the Carboniferous.[32]
Mesozoic: from reptiles to mammals and birds
[edit]Amniotes branched from amphibious tetrapods early in the Carboniferous period. The synapsid amniotes were dominant during the late Paleozoic, the Permian, while diapsid amniotes became dominant during the Mesozoic. In the sea, the teleosts and sharks became dominant. Mesothermic synapsids called cynodonts gave rise to endothermic mammals and diapsids called dinosaurs eventually gave rise to endothermic birds, both in the Jurassic.[33]
Cenozoic: Age of Mammals
[edit]During the Cenozoic, the current era, great diversification of ray-finned fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals has taken place. It is sometimes called the "Age of Mammals", because of the dominance of the terrestrial environment by that group. Placental mammals have occupied the Northern Hemisphere, with marsupial mammals in the Southern Hemisphere.[34][35]
Approaches to classification
[edit]Traditional taxonomy
[edit]Conventional evolutionary taxonomy groups extant vertebrates into seven classes based on traditional interpretations of gross anatomical and physiological traits. The commonly held classification lists three classes of fish and four of tetrapods.[36]
- Subphylum Vertebrata
- Class Agnatha (jawless fishes)
- Class Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fishes)
- Class Osteichthyes (bony fishes)
- Class Amphibia (amphibians)
- Class Reptilia (reptiles: paraphyletic)
- Class Aves (birds)
- Class Mammalia (mammals)
In addition to these, there are two classes of extinct armoured fishes, Placodermi and Acanthodii, both paraphyletic.
Other ways of classifying the vertebrates have been devised, particularly with emphasis on the phylogeny of early amphibians and reptiles. An example based on Janvier (1981, 1997), Shu et al. (2003), and Benton (2004)[37] is given here († = extinct):
- Subphylum Vertebrata
- †Palaeospondylus
- Infraphylum Agnatha or Cephalaspidomorphi (lampreys and other jawless fishes)
- Superclass †Anaspidomorphi (anaspids and relatives)
- Infraphylum Gnathostomata (vertebrates with jaws)
- Class †Placodermi (extinct armoured fishes)
- Class Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fishes)
- Class †Acanthodii (extinct spiny "sharks")
- Superclass Osteichthyes (bony fishes)
- Class Actinopterygii (ray-finned bony fishes)
- Class Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fishes, including the tetrapods)
- Superclass Tetrapoda (four-limbed vertebrates)
- Class Amphibia (amphibians, some ancestral to the amniotes)—now a paraphyletic group
- Class Synapsida (mammals and the extinct mammal-like reptiles)
- Class Sauropsida (reptiles and birds)
While this traditional taxonomy is orderly, most of the groups are paraphyletic, meaning that the structure does not accurately reflect the natural evolved grouping.[37] For instance, descendants of the first reptiles include modern reptiles, mammals and birds; the agnathans have given rise to the jawed vertebrates; the bony fishes have given rise to the land vertebrates; a group of amphibians, the labyrinthodonts, have given rise to the reptiles (traditionally including the mammal-like synapsids), which in turn have given rise to the mammals and birds. Most scientists working with vertebrates use a classification based purely on phylogeny, organized by their known evolutionary history and sometimes disregarding the conventional interpretations of their anatomy and physiology.[4]
External phylogeny
[edit]It was once thought that the Cephalochordata was the sister taxon to Vertebrata. This group, Notochordata, was taken to be sister to the Tunicata (the Notochordata hypothesis).[38] Since 2006, analysis has shown that the tunicates + vertebrates form a clade, the Olfactores, with Cephalochordata as its sister (the Olfactores hypothesis), as shown in the following phylogenetic tree.[39][40][22]
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Internal phylogeny
[edit]The phylogenetic tree below is based on studies compiled by Philippe Janvier and others for the Tree of Life Web Project and Delsuc et al.,[41][42] and complemented (based on,[43][44] and [45]). A dagger (†) denotes an extinct clade, whereas all other clades have living descendants.
Vertebrata |
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As shown, †"Ostracodermi" (armoured jawless fishes) and †"Placodermi" (armoured jawed fishes) are paraphylectic groups, separated from gnathostomes and eugnathostomes respectively.[46][47]
The placement of hagfishes on the vertebrate tree of life has been controversial. Their lack of proper vertebrae (among with other characteristics of lampreys and jawed vertebrates) led phylogenetic analyses based on morphology to place them outside Vertebrata.[48] Molecular data, however, indicates they are vertebrates closely related to lampreys.[49][50] An older view is that they are a sister group of vertebrates in the common taxon of Craniata.[51] A study by Miyashita et al. (2019), reconciled the two types of analysis, supporting the Cyclostomata hypothesis using only morphological data.[52]
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Diversity
[edit]Species by group
[edit]Described and extant vertebrate species are split roughly evenly but non-phylogenetically between non-tetrapod "fish" and tetrapods. The following table lists the number of described extant species for each vertebrate class as estimated in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2014.3.[53] Paraphyletic groups are shown in quotation marks.
Vertebrate groups | Image | Class | Estimated number of described species[53][54] |
Group totals[53] | ||
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Anamniote lack amniotic membrane so need to reproduce in water |
Jawless | "Fish" | Myxini (hagfish) |
78 | >32,900 | |
Hyperoartia (lamprey) |
40 | |||||
Jawed | cartilaginous fish |
>1,100 | ||||
ray-finned fish |
>32,000 | |||||
"lobe-finned fish" |
8 | |||||
Tetrapods | amphibians | 7,302 | 33,278 | |||
Amniote have amniotic membrane adapted to reproducing on land |
"reptiles" | 10,711 | ||||
mammals | 5,513 | |||||
birds | 10,425 | |||||
Total described species | 66,178 |
The IUCN estimates that 1,305,075 extant invertebrate species have been described,[53] which means that less than 5% of the described animal species in the world are vertebrates.[55]
Population trends
[edit]The Living Planet Index, following 16,704 populations of 4,005 species of vertebrates, shows a decline of 60% between 1970 and 2014.[56] Since 1970, freshwater species declined 83%, and tropical populations in South and Central America declined 89%.[57] The authors note that "An average trend in population change is not an average of total numbers of animals lost."[57] According to WWF, this could lead to a sixth major extinction event.[58] The five main causes of biodiversity loss are land-use change, overexploitation of natural resources, climate change, pollution and invasive species.[59]
See also
[edit]- Marine vertebrate – Marine animals with a vertebrate column
- Taxonomy of the vertebrates (Young, 1962) – Classification of spine-possessing animals according to some authorities
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External links
[edit]- Tree of Life
- Tunicates and not cephalochordates are the closest living relatives of vertebrates
- Vertebrate Pests chapter in United States Environmental Protection Agency and University of Florida/Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences National Public Health Pesticide Applicator Training Manual
- The Vertebrates
- The Origin of Vertebrates Marc W. Kirschner, iBioSeminars, 2008.