vote for best phylum and I'll come back later asking fo

>inb4 all the hipsters even attempt to justify not picking chordata

>>2472284
>not tardigrades

Fug, i cant vote because phoneposting

>>2472284
chordates are undeniably the best animals. sure there are a few neat bugs or whatever but none are better than most vertebrate life.

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>>2471630
>lampreys aren't fish
what?

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>>2471630
>Chordata is in second place
Come on guys, root for the home team.

>>2473612
because they aren't, they lack the jaw which is essential to fish

>>2473612
Hagfish and lampreys are separate from fish.

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>>2473616
holy shit, you're actually right! why have I never heard this before?

Arthropoda is fucking boss

>>2473620
lampreys are really fascinating because they are very similar to the first vertebrates

>>2473620
i recommend "David Attenborough's Rise of Animals: Triumph of the Vertebrates"

part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-u0KisYx-M
part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMHs9Wx3SEg

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who tf votes for porifera, honestly...

>>2473612
>>2473616
>>2473617
lampreys are fish.

"fish" is a paraphyletic group anyway. jawless fish (like lampreys and hagfish), cartilaginous fish (sharks), ray-finned fish, lobe-finned fish and a few more are all their own separate groups but they are all still grouped as "fish".

now, lancelets, those things are not fish.

>>2474181
well, "fish" is the problem here, some count cyclostomata as fish and some don't but i personally would say they aren't fish but there is no way to actually proof that

>>2471630
Octopuses
Anenomes

OP is kill

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>penis worms
That fucker who named it knew full well what he was doing. Same thing with sperm whales, can't even discuss them without someone going "haha benis and sperm, xDDDD".