Asymmetron lucayanum: How many species are valid? Lucie Subirana, Viviana Farstey, Stéphanie Bertrand, Hector Escriva To cite this version: Lucie Subirana, Viviana Farstey, Stéphanie Bertrand, Hector Escriva. Asymmetron lucayanum: How many species are valid?. PLoS ONE, Public Library of Science, 2020, 15 (3), pp.e0229119. 10.1371/journal.pone.0229119. hal-02862415 HAL Id: hal-02862415 https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/hal-02862415 Submitted on 9 Jun 2020 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. RESEARCH ARTICLE Asymmetron lucayanum: How many species are valid? 1 2 1 1 Lucie Subirana , Viviana Farstey , Stephanie Bertrand *, Hector EscrivaID * 1 Sorbonne UniversiteÂ, CNRS, Biologie InteÂgrative des Organismes Marins (BIOM), Observatoire OceÂanologique, Banyuls-sur-Mer, France, 2 The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences, Eilat, Israel *
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[email protected] (HE) a1111111111 a1111111111 Abstract a1111111111 a1111111111 The cephalochordates amphioxus or lancelets are benthic marine animals representing a1111111111 the earliest divergent evolutionary lineage within chordates. Although amphioxus are pres- ent in most of the world's tropical and temperate oceans, only about thirty different species grouped into three different genera, Branchiostoma, Epigonichthys and Asymmetron have been described.