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feeding currents.
Pyrosomes are
brightly bioluminescent,
flashing a pale blue-green
light that can be seen for tens of metres.
Pyrosomes are
closely related...
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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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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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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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Megaplankton > 20 cm metazoans; e.g. jellyfish; ctenop****s;
salps and
pyrosomes (pelagic Tunicata); Cephalopoda;
Amphipoda Macroplankton 2→20 cm metazoans;...
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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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directly connected by
tissue (e.g. corals, Catenulida, Siphonophorae,
Pyrosome or Ectoprocta) or
share a
common exoskeleton (e.g.
Bryozoa or Pterobranchia)...
- (sea squirts,
paraphyletic with
respect to Thaliacea)
Thaliacea (salps,
pyrosomes, and doliolids)
Myxini (hagfish)
Petromyzontida (lamprey) Chondrichthyes...
- megamouth.
Sperm whales have also been
noted to feed on
bioluminescent pyrosomes such as
Pyrosoma atlanti****. It is
thought that the
foraging strategy...
