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Pyrosomes are free-floating
colonial tunicates in
family Pyrosomatidae.
There are
three genera, Pyrosoma,
Pyrosomella and Pyrostremma, and
eight species...
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directly connected by
tissue (e.g. corals, Catenulida, Siphonophorae,
Pyrosome or Ectoprocta) or
share a
common exoskeleton (e.g.
Bryozoa or Pterobranchia)...
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marine chordates within the
subphylum Tunicata,
comprising the salps,
pyrosomes and doliolids.
Unlike their benthic relatives the ascidians, from which...
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Pyrostremma is a
genus of
marine pyrosome containing 2 species.
Pyrostremma contains the
following species:
Pyrostremma ag****izi (Ritter & Byxbee, 1905)...
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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...
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salinities over 2.5%.
While members of the
Thaliacea (salps,
doliolids and
pyrosomes) and
Appendicularia (larvaceans) swim
freely like plankton, sea squirts...
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class Ascidiacea (sea squirts)
class Thaliacea (salps,
doliolids and
pyrosomes)
class Appendicularia (larvaceans)
Subphylum Vertebrata (Craniata) (vertebrates...
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genus of
pyrosomes,
marine colonial tunicates in the
class Thaliacea. It
contains four
pelagic species found in
temperate waters worldwide.
Pyrosomes are filter...
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Salicornia virginica,
native to
North America Sesuvium portulacastrum Pyrosome, cone-shaped
colonies that
inhabit the
upper layers of the open
ocean Samphire...
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Pyrosomella is a
genus of
pyrosome that is
usually smaller than
typical pyrosoma. They are less than a
centimeter to
several meters long. They are most...
