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• Amphioxus is a primitive chordate, more primitive than lampreys, that clot their haemolymph. The Panda's Thumb: Ian Musgrave Archives
• In the middle is a cephalochordate, Amphioxus, also a filter feeder, but capable of free swimming. Ascidian evo-devo - The Panda's Thumb
• The same kind of coelom-formation as in sagitta was afterwards found by Kowalevsky in brachiopods and other invertebrates, and in the lowest vertebrate -- the amphioxus. The Evolution of Man — Volume 1
• Single forms were cloned from dogfish shark, greenland shark, both lamprey species, hagfish, and amphioxus.
• Technically an invertebrate, amphioxus is classified in subphylum Protochordata, phylum Chordata.
• Such a gastrula, formed mainly by overgrowth of the epiblast, is called an epibolic gastrula, as distinguished from the invaginate gastrula of amphioxus. Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
• In going from amphioxus to jawless fish to jawed fish to land vertebrates we see an increase in complexity of the clotting cascade: Behe's Test
• A few years ago, some molecular embryology data on amphioxus have revived the long forgotten hypothesis that the ancestor of coelomates was a segmented animal.
• Amphioxus (Lancelet) - Amphioxus, also called lancelet, is a small marine animal resembling a miniature fish without eyes (or even a head), which is found widely in coastal waters around warmer parts of the world. Undefined
• Amphioxus, a cephalochordate, widely considered as the closest living invertebrate relatives of the vertebrates.