Amphioxus

[,æmfi'ɒksәs]

Definition

(n.) A fishlike creature (Amphioxus lanceolatus), two or three inches long, found in temperature seas; -- also called the lancelet. Its body is pointed at both ends. It is the lowest and most generalized of the vertebrates, having neither brain, skull, vertebrae, nor red blood. It forms the type of the group Acrania, Leptocardia, etc.

Edited by Elise

Definition

n. the lancelet one of the lowest backboned animals found on the sandy coasts of warm and temperate seas. The body is about two inches long and pointed at both ends.

Typist: Wesley