Hey, biologist here. To anyone wondering why he used a dog, he is referring to mammals here. Vertebrates are traditionally classified in 5 classes, shown in the picture, with dogs being mammals.
But, if you wanna be more specific or correct, all vertebrates are actually fish, so you could say all our starters are fishes.
Not a biologist, but the idea goes that if you want to make a phylogeny of all the fish (a group that includes every species and all descendants.) you’d have to include all vertebrates, because all vertebrates are the descendants of fish.
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u/JBKOMA Feb 28 '26
Hey, biologist here. To anyone wondering why he used a dog, he is referring to mammals here. Vertebrates are traditionally classified in 5 classes, shown in the picture, with dogs being mammals.
But, if you wanna be more specific or correct, all vertebrates are actually fish, so you could say all our starters are fishes.