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Ciro Santilli
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Amniote
Updated
2025-07-16
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Name
origin:
amnion
,
a
pellicle that covers embryos of both
eggs
and also during
pregnancy
.
Includes:
sauropsida
:
reptiles
and
birds
, which really are
reptiles
mammals
, or if you want to include
a
bunch
of
extinct
non-
reptile
mammal
ancestors,
synapsids
.
Does not include
amphibians
. If you include them, you have the
tetrapods
.
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Fish
Updated
2025-07-16
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Vertebrates
minus
tetrapods
.
This
paraphyletic subgroup
is easy to form the "acquatic only" (
fishes
)
vs
"things that come out of
water
" (
tetrapods
). Though
mudfishes
make that distinction harder.
Which kind of makes
sense
, why would you want for limbs unless you are going to stay out of
water
!
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Non-clade groups are evil
Updated
2025-07-16
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All non-
clade
groups
are
evil
. All non-
clade
terms must be forgotten. Some notable ones:
fish
excluding
tetrapods
reptile
excluding
birds
prokaryotes
including
archaea
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