Is Chordata an animal phylum of vertebrates?

The phylum Chordata is an extremely diverse phylum, and the one most recognizable to us. The phylum contains about 43,700 species, most of them concentrated in the subphylum Vertebrata, making it the third-largest phylum in the animal kingdom. read more

Chordates are a phylum, and they are in kingdom Animalia, but Vertebrata is a subphylum under Chordates - not the other way around. So, some animals are chordates, and some chordates are vertebrates. Not all chordates are vertebrates. read more

While animals like humans, mammals and birds are all vertebrates in the Phylum Chordata, not all animals in the Phylum Chordata are vertebrates. The Phylum Chordata contains three Subphyla. The Vertebrates: Subphylum Vertebrata. read more

Chordate, any member of the phylum Chordata, which includes the vertebrates, the most highly evolved animals, as well as two other subphyla—the tunicates and cephalochordates. Some classifications also include the phylum Hemichordata with the chordates. read more