1) Amphioxus 2) Burrowing marine animal 3) Cephalochordate
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1) Amphioxus
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The lancelets (from `lancet`), also known as amphioxus, comprise some thirty-two species of fish-like marine chordates with a global distribution in shallow temperate (as far north as Scotland) and tropical seas, usually found half-buried in sand. They are the modern representatives of the subphylum Cephalochordata, formerly thought to be the si.....
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• (n.) A small fishlike animal (Amphioxus lanceolatus), remarkable for the rudimentary condition of its organs. It is the type of the class Leptocardia. See Amphioxus, Leptocardia.
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Lance'let noun [
Lance +
- let .]
(Zoology) A small fishlike animal (
Amphioxus lanceolatus ), remarkable for the rudimentary condition of its organs. It is the type of the class Leptocardia. See
Amphioxus ,
Leptocardia .
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The Lancelet (Amphioxus lanceoldtus), a singular fish, two or three inches long, with a slender, compressed, transparent, lance-shaped body, occurring in shoal water in the temperate and torrid parts of the earth. It forms the sole member and representative of the order Pharyngobranchii or Leptocardii. No true or paired fins are represented, and in...
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[
n] - small translucent lancet-shaped burrowing marine animal
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amphioxus noun small translucent lancet-shaped burrowing marine animal; primitive forerunner of the vertebrates
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Any of a variety of marine animals about 2.5 cm/1 in long. They have no skull, brain, eyes, heart, vertebral column, centralized brain, or paired limbs, but there is a notochord (a supportive rod) which runs from end to end of the body, a tail, and a number of gill slits. Found in all seas, lancelets burrow in the sand but when disturbed swim f...
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