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Definition of Cephalochordata
1. Noun. Lancelets.
Group relationships: Chordata, Phylum Chordata
Member holonyms: Cephalochordate, Amphioxidae, Branchiostomidae, Family Amphioxidae, Family Branchiostomidae
Generic synonyms: Phylum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cephalochordata
Literary usage of Cephalochordata
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Vertebrate Zoölogy by Horatio Hackett Newman (1920)
"SUB-PHYLUM I. Cephalochordata The Cephalochordata are considered first because
their claims to vertebrate relationship are stronger than those of the other ..."
2. Zoology: An Elementary Text-book by Arthur Everett Shipley, Ernest William MacBride (1904)
"... SUB-PHYLA HEMICHORDATA, Cephalochordata AND UROCHORDATA. THE Vertebrata comprise
almost all the larger animals, including Man. ..."
3. Introduction to the study of embryology by Alfred Cort Haddon (1887)
"Urochordata.—In Ascidians the notochord is developed solely in the tail, it being
derived from the dorsal wall of the caudal archenteron. Cephalochordata. ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"It may be noted that the names Hemichordata, Urochordata and Cephalochordata are
given as terms of subphyla and not as class names. ..."
5. A Manual of the Vertebrate Animals of the Northern United States: Including by David Starr Jordan (1904)
"... continued forward to a point before the mi (Cephalochordata) : body elongate,
lanceolate, somewhat : like in form, not worm-like nor enveloped in a ..."
6. Comparative Anatomy and Physiology by Francis Jeffrey Bell (1885)
"there would seem to be degradation; these are the Cephalochordata; and, ...
and those of the Cephalochordata ; while in none has the application of the ..."
7. An Easy Outline of Evolution by Dennis Hird (1903)
"Some of them reproduce their kind by budding. CLASS HI.—Cephalochordata.
Cephalochordata means literally "head-stringed" (from ..."
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