How to pronounce “vertebrate”(adj) in English

which is the largest of the land-based vertebrate animals in terms of the numbers, so we're talking worldwide

The World Wildlife Fund says that 60% of all vertebrate mammals have died since just 1970.

In fact, we don't actually know the complete genome sequence of any vertebrate animal, including humans.

But there are parts of the human genome, and of every other mammalian genome and vertebrate genome, that are extremely hard to sequence through,