Vertebrate Trading Card Project

By: Mitchell Boh

AgnathaInteresting Extras

• Cold Blooded • 2 Heart Chambers• They are internal fertilizers • They have a slender eel-shaped

body made out of cartilage. There digestive systems have no stomach

• Favorite color – blue (the color of the ocean)

• Most Embarrassing Moment – When I ate a rock by accident and all of my friends made fun of me.

Scientific Name - Petromyzon marinusCommon Name - Diverse lampreysEnvironment - The ocean, rivers, delta ect.

Chondricthyes Interesting Extras

• Cold Blooded• 2 Heart Chambers• Mostly internal fertilization• Jawed fish with scales and a cartilage

skeleton • About a 20 feet wing span.• Largest Manta Ray ever is about 3000

pounds.• They eat Plankton, small fish and

crustaceans. They have no teeth.

• Mantas don't have a stinging spine.

Scientific Name - Manta Birostris Common Name – Manta RayEnvironment - The ocean

Osteichthyes Interesting Extras

• Cold blooded• 2 Heat Chambers• Mostly external fertilization but it can

be internal • Stable pattern of cranial bones • Moveable muscles in lower jaw• Over 20,000 species • Acute eyes • When scared it “puffs up” and the

size and sudden growth of the fish scares its predators away.

• Greatest Achievement – He scared a shark away because he “puffed up”

Scientific Name - Lagocephalus lagocephalusCommon Name – Puffer FishEnvironment - Marine, near coral reefs and tropical shallow water

Amphibia

• Interesting Extras• Cold Blooded • Three Heart Chambers• When they are tadpoles they fertilize

internally but when they at adults they fertilize externally (frogs in the rainforest)

• They lay their eggs in water• Adults breath air and water.• There are not true sea water amphibians • It has toxic chemicals on it’s skin when it

lives on land. • Some Newts can live for 12 to 15 years.• Favorite food is a snail with a side of fresh

worms

Scientific Name – Notophthalmus viridescens

Common Name - NewtEnvironment - Lives in and around

ponds, lakes, marshes, and quiet streams.

Reptilia

• Interesting Extras• Cold Blooded• Three Heart Chambers• They fertilize externally by laying

eggs• Dry, scaly or horny skin (no hair)• Heard shelled eggs• Breath with lungs• The first animal, in evolution, to

develop the amniotic egg, this allows reptiles to lay eggs on land.

• A great defense the turtle has is that is can hide itself in its shell

Scientific Name – Dermochelys coriaceaCommon Name – Giant Sea Turtle or

Leatherback Sea TurtleEnvironment - marine, lives near coral

reefs

Aves

• Interesting Extras• They are warm blooded• They have four heart chambers• They live in any terrestrial habitat• Horny beak, no teach• Feathers• Yoked eggs• Toucans are born blind • You can hear the sound of a toucan

over a 1\2 mile away• Biggest fear it’s a jaguar• Toucans live mostly in South America • Favorite food are seeds

Scientific Name – Ramphastos sulfuratus

Common Name – ToucanEnvironment - The rainforest of South

America

Mammalia

• Interesting Extras• Warm blooded• Four heart chambers• Internal fertilization • Have hair• Most have sweat glands• Have fat glands• Over 4000 species• Four legs• They have thinking brains• They are related to an elephant• They are an endangered species• Greatest achievement is staying alive

when his species is endangered

Scientific Name – Trichechus manatus latirostris

Common Name – ManateeEnvironment - marine, shallow waters