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Definition of Ascidian tadpole
1. Noun. Free-swimming larva of ascidians; they have a tail like a tadpole that contains the notochord.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ascidian Tadpole
Literary usage of Ascidian tadpole
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science from an Easy Chair: A Second Series by Edwin Ray Lankester (1913)
"In very young stages of growth of the ascidian tadpole, the nerve-tube is formed
from the ... The ascidian tadpole, like the frog's tadpole, has a swollen, ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1890)
"... or the ascidian tadpole. The first tendency arising from the discovery of ...
and the ascidian tadpole, the young form resembles allied organisms of a ..."
3. The Advancement of Science: Occasional Essays & Addresses by Edwin Ray Lankester (1890)
"18 a more detailed representation of the head of an ascidian tadpole is given.
FIG. 18.—ascidian tadpole with a part only of the tail C. ff, ..."
4. Zoology: An Elementary Text-book by Arthur Everett Shipley, Ernest William MacBride (1904)
"Thus both in the structure of the nervous system and the position of the anus,
the ascidian tadpole is more advanced than the Amphioxus. ..."
5. Amphioxus and the Ancestry of the Vertebrates by Arthur Willey (1894)
"The post-anal portion of the body, which we suppose to be the homologue of the
tail of the ascidian tadpole, does not appear until a somewhat late period in ..."
6. A Treatise on Comparative Embryology by Francis Maitland Balfour (1885)
"It may be noted that the same difficulty is involved in supposing, as I have
done, that the eye of the ascidian tadpole was developed from that of a ..."
7. Degeneration: A Chapter in Darwinism by Edwin Ray Lankester (1880)
"The ascidian tadpole is very unlike its parent the Ascidian, ... ascidian tadpole
with a part only of the tail C. N, nervous system with the enlarged brain ..."
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