Definition of Pyrosome. Meaning of Pyrosome. Synonyms of Pyrosome

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Definition of Pyrosome

Pyrosome
Pyrosome Pyr"o*some, n. [Pyro- + -some body.] (Zo["o]l.) Any compound ascidian of the genus Pyrosoma. The pyrosomes form large hollow cylinders, sometimes two or three feet long, which swim at the surface of the sea and are very phosphorescent.

Meaning of Pyrosome from wikipedia

- Pyrosomes are free-floating colonial tunicates in family Pyrosomatidae. Pyrosomes consist of colonies of small Zooids. There are three genera, Pyrosoma...
- directly connected by tissue (e.g. corals, Catenulida, Siphonophorae, Pyrosome or Ectoprocta) or share a common exoskeleton (e.g. Bryozoa or Pterobranchia)...
- marine chordates within the subphylum Tunicata, comprising the salps, pyrosomes and doliolids. Unlike their benthic relatives the ascidians, from which...
- Pyrostremma is a genus of marine pyrosome containing 2 species. Pyrostremma contains the following species: Pyrostremma ag****izi (Ritter & Byxbee, 1905)...
- genus of pyrosomes, marine colonial tunicates in the class Thaliacea. It contains four pelagic species found in temperate waters worldwide. Pyrosomes are filter...
- salinities over 2.5%. While members of the Thaliacea (salps, doliolids and pyrosomes) and Appendicularia (larvaceans) swim freely like plankton, sea squirts...
- paraphyletic as thaliaceans are excluded) class Thaliacea (salps, doliolids and pyrosomes) class Appendicularia (larvaceans) Subphylum Vertebrata (Craniata) (vertebrates...
- attached to rocks or other hard surfaces on the ocean floor. Thaliaceans (pyrosomes, doliolids, and salps) and larvaceans on the other hand, swim in the pelagic...
- that may have been a serpent. Giant oarfish Gyarados Kraken Lindworm Nāga Pyrosome Selma Stronsay Beast Ogopogo Jörmungandr Imugi (Korea) Mizuchi (****an)...
- There are 81 species of tunicate (subphylum Tunicata) recorded in Ireland. Clavelina lepadiformis (light-bulb sea squirt) Didemnum fulgens Didemnum maculosum...