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Protochordata

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Protochordata

[¦prōd·ō·kȯr′dad·ə]
(invertebrate zoology)
The equivalent name for Hemichordata.
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References in periodicals archive
The biology of Hemichordata and Protochordata. Freeman and Company, San Francisco, 176 pp.
Taxonomic composition and distribution of cephalochordates (Cephalochordata: Amphioxiformes) from Mexico
On ciliary mechanisms in brachiopods and some polychaetes, with a comparison of the ciliary mechanisms on the gills of molluscs, Protochordata, brachiopods, and cryptocephalous polychaetes, and an account of the endostyle of Crepidula and its allies.
Observations of feeding in the common Atlantic slippersnail Crepidula fornicata L., with special reference to the "mucus net"
The digestive enzymes in invertebrata and protochordata. Tabulae Biologicae (Hague), 21, 75-367.
The characterization of three digestive enzymes from the crayfish Procamabarus clarkii
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