chordate

C18290
concept

A chordate is an animal belonging to the phylum Chordata, characterized at some stage of its life cycle by the presence of a notochord, a dorsal hollow nerve cord, pharyngeal slits, an endostyle or thyroid gland, and a post-anal tail.

All labels observed (8)

Label Occurrences
chordate canonical 13
synapsid 3
stem-gnathostome 2

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: chordate
Generated description
A chordate is an animal belonging to the phylum Chordata, characterized at some stage of its life cycle by the presence of a notochord, a dorsal hollow nerve cord, pharyngeal slits, an endostyle or thyroid gland, and a post-anal tail.

Instances (20)

Instance Via concept surface
Ammospiza maritima
Oryzoborus funereus
Penelope jacquacu
Penelope bridgesi
Kadavu musk parrot
Anaspida extinct jawless fish clade
Thelodonti jawless vertebrate clade
Osteostraci ostracoderm
white-necked rockfowl
Lystrosaurus synapsid
therapsids
surface form: Therapsids
synapsid
Geospiza fortis
Chauna torquata
Prunella fulvescens
Dimetrodon synapsid
Cotinga nattererii
Mirafra africana
Phrygilus patagonicus
Pikaia early chordate
Nyctibius grandis