amphibians and fish. The vertebrates consist of all the taxa within the subphylum Vertebrata (/ˌvɜːrtəˈbreɪtə/) (chordates with backbones) and represent the overwhelming majority of the phylum Chordata, with currently about 69,963 species described.random Welcome to Palo Altoretrieved2023-08-02tagsAnimal (Wikipedia)Biology (Wikipedia)Wikipediawebsitehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertebratewikipedia ofvertebrateVertebrata