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chordates

Sciurus meridionalis

Classification

Family
Sciuridae

A chordate ( KOR-dayt) is a bilaterian animal belonging to the phylum Chordata ( kor-DAY-tə). All chordates possess, at some point during their larval or adult stages, five distinctive physical characteristics (synapomorphies) that distinguish them from other taxa: a notochord, a hollow dorsal nerve cord, an endostyle or thyroid, pharyngeal slits, and a post-anal tail. In addition to the morphological characteristics used to define chordates, analysis of genome sequences has identified two conserved signature indels (CSIs) in their proteins: cyclophilin-like protein and inner mitochondrial…

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
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