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cephalochordate

DEFINITIONS OF: cephalochordate

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n fish-like animals having a notochord rather than a true spinal column

Types:
amphioxus, lancelet
small translucent lancet-shaped burrowing marine animal; primitive forerunner of the vertebrates
Type of:
chordate
any animal of the phylum Chordata having a notochord or spinal column
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