Invertebrate

Invertebrate is a term coined by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck was a French [i] naturalist and an ea ...

to describe any animal

Animal

Animals are a major group of organism [i]s, classified as the kingdom [i] Animalia or ...

without a spinal column. The group includes 97% of all animal speciesall animals except vertebrate

Vertebrate

Vertebrata is a subphylum [i] of chordate [i]s, specifically, those with backbone [i]s or spinal column [i] ...

s . Lamarck divided these animals into two groups, the Insect

Insect

Insects are invertebrate [i]s that are taxonomically [i] referred to as the class Inse ...

a and the Vermes, but they are now classified into over 30 phyla, from simple organisms such as sponges and flatworm

Flatworm

The flatworms are a phylum [i] of relatively simple soft-bodied invertebrate animal [i]s. ...

s to complex animals such as arthropod

Arthropod

Arthropods are the largest phylum [i] of animal [i]s and include the insect [i]s, arachnid [i]s, crustacean [i] ...

s and molluscs

Mollusca

The mollusks or molluscs are the large and diverse phylum [i] Mollusca, which includ ...

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Invertebrate is a term coined by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck