Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Cephalochordata > Class Leptocardii > Family Branchiostomatidae

Branchiostoma Costa, 1834

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Amphioxus*	Yarrell, 1836	synonym

Children

Branchiostoma lanceolatum (Pallas, 1774)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ナメクジウオ属

Literature

original description	Costa, O. G. (1834). Cenni zoologici, ossia Descrizione sommaria delle specie nuove di animali discoperti in diverse contrade del regno nell'anno 1834, etc.
basis of record	van der Land, J. (2001). Cephalochordata, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 357
additional source	MacNae, W. & M. Kalk (eds). (1958). A natural history of Inhaca Island, Mozambique. Witwatersrand Univ. Press, Johannesburg. I-iv, 163 pp.
additional source	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.