Definition of Cephalochordata

1. Noun. Lancelets.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Cephalochordata

Centropristis philadelphica
Centropus
Centropus phasianinus
Centropus sinensis
Centrosema
Centrosema virginianum
Centruroides
Centum
Centunculus
Cephaelis
Cephalanthera
Cephalanthera rubra
Cephalaspida
Cephalobidae
Cephalochordata
Cephalomyia
Cephalonia
Cephalonian
Cephalopoda
Cephalopterus
Cephalopterus ornatus
Cephalosporium
Cephalotaceae
Cephalotaxaceae
Cephalotaxus
Cephalotus
Cephalotus follicularis
Cephas
Cepheus

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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