lancelet

C13573
concept

A lancelet is a small, fish-like marine invertebrate chordate that retains a notochord throughout life and serves as a model for understanding early vertebrate evolution.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
lancelet canonical 2

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: lancelet
Generated description
A lancelet is a small, fish-like marine invertebrate chordate that retains a notochord throughout life and serves as a model for understanding early vertebrate evolution.

Instances (2)

Instance Via concept surface
Branchiostoma
Asymmetron