We found 1 definitions of aquatic vertebrate from 1 different sources.
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aquatic vertebrate - animal living wholly or chiefly in or on water | ||
craniate, vertebrate animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium | ||
agnathan, jawless fish, jawless vertebrate eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms | ||
placoderm fish-like vertebrate with bony plates on head and upper body; dominant in seas and rivers during the Devonian; considered the earliest vertebrate with jaws | ||
flipper the flat broad limb of aquatic animals specialized for swimming |