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Lancelet   Listen
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Lancelet  n.  (Zool.) 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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"Lancelet" Quotes from Famous Books



... working very hard lately at the lower vertebrata, and getting out results which will interest you greatly. Your suggestion that Rathke's canals in Amphioxus [The Lancelet.] are the Wolffian ducts was a capital shot, but it just missed the mark because Rathke's canals do not exist. Nevertheless there are two half canals, the dorsal walls of which meet in the raphe described by Stieda, and the plaited lining ...
— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 2 • Leonard Huxley



Words linked to "Lancelet" :   amphioxus, genus Amphioxus, cephalochordate



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