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‖ Invertebrata, n. pl.|ɪnvɜːtɪˈbreɪtə|
[mod.L., = animālia invertebrāta, corresp. to F. animaux invertébrés, invertebrate animals: see invertebrate.]
A name given to all animals except the Vertebrata or back-boned animals; originally introduced as correlative with the latter term, but now recognized as containing numerous sub-kingdoms, as distinct from each other as from the Vertebrata, and therefore retained only as a convenient negative term compehending all groups below the Vertebrata.
1828Stark Elem. Nat. Hist. II. Invertebrata 2 The Invertebral animals..are arranged by Cuvier into three great divisions. 1841T. R. Jones Anim. Kingd. i. §2 Animals..corresponding to the invertebrata of more recent Zoologists. 1842Brande Dict. Sci. 610/2 Lamarck's primary division of the animal kingdom into Vertebrata and Invertebrata corresponds with that proposed by Aristotle into Enaima and Anaima. 1843Owen Lect. Comp. Anat. 12 Lamarck proposed, therefore, the name of Vertebrata for the one class and Invertebrata for the other. 1849Murchison Siluria i. (1867) 8 Crustaceans, Mollusks, and other invertebrata. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. I. 4 Invertebrata, or animals destitute of a cranium or skull, and a vertebral column. |