Amphioxus (Lancelet)

Amphioxus (Lancelet)

Amphioxus (Lancelet) The Amphioxus also known as lancelet, Consisting of 30 to 35 species of “fish-like” chordates. Branchiostoma is one of the few living genera of lancelets. It is the type genus of the family Branchiostomidae. The lancelets are believed to be related to Pikaia (530-million-year-old) fossils. The first representative organism of the group to be described was Branchiostoma lanceolatum, the European lancelet or Mediterranean amphioxus, lancelet in the subphylum Cephalochordata. It is a marine invertebrate with a notochord but no backbone and is used as a model organism to…

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