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    All living lancelets are all placed in the family Branchiostomatidae, class Leptocardii, and subphylum Cephalochordata. The family was first named by Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1846, though he used the incorrect spelling "Branchiostomidae". [3] See more

    The lancelets , also known as amphioxi (sg.: amphioxus /หŒæmfiหˆษ’ksษ™s/ AM-fee-OK-sษ™s), consist of some 30 to 35 species of "fish-like" benthic filter feeding chordates in the subphylum Cephalochordata, class Leptocardii, and โ€ฆ See more

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    The larvae are extremely asymmetrical, with the mouth and anus on the left side, and the gill slits on the right side. Organs associated with the โ€ฆ See more

    The animals are edible and harvested in some parts of the world. They are eaten both fresh, tasting like herring, and as a food additive in dry form after being roasted in oil. โ€ฆ See more

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    Adult amphioxus typically inhabit the seafloor, burrowing into well-ventilated substrates โ€ฆ See more

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    The first representative organism of the group to be described was Branchiostoma lanceolatum. โ€ฆ See more

    Lancelets became famous in the 1860s when Ernst Haeckel began promoting them as a model for the ancestor of all vertebrates. By 1900 lancelets had become a See more

    The lancelets were traditionally seen as the sister lineage to the vertebrates; in turn, these two groups together (sometimes called โ€ฆ See more

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  2. Leptocardii - Wikipedia

  3. WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Leptocardii

  4. Lancelet - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  5. Lancelets (Class Leptocardii) · iNaturalist

    WEBThe lancelets โ€” also known as amphioxi (singular, amphioxus) consist of about 32 species of fish-like marine chordates in the order Amphioxiformes. They are distributed in shallow and coastal temperate (as far north as โ€ฆ

  6. Leptocardii - GBIF

  7. Molecular taxonomy confirms that the northeastern Atlantic and ...

  8. Leptocardii - Encyclopedia of Life

  9. Leptocardii - Ocean Biodiversity Information System - OBIS

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