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What is a lancelet?

What is a lancelet? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. any of a group of primitive marine animals, having a notochord instead of a backbone
    1. of subphylum Cephalochordata
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The liver in the lancelet is a long diverticulum of the intestine.
As examples, she worked on lampreys in the early sixties, molluscs and lancelet in the early seventies, and teleosts in the early eighties.
It is still more remarkable than the amphioxus or lancelet, which has been long known.
The lowest of the Vertebrata, the lancelet, has a larva of this kind.
There is a huge gap between the lancelet and the true vertebrates.
From the lowest of the Vertebrata, the lancelet, we passed on to the Lamprey, and from that to the true fishes.

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