Definition of Pyrosomes. Meaning of Pyrosomes. Synonyms of Pyrosomes

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Definition of Pyrosomes

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 Pyrosomes from wikipedia

- feeding currents. Pyrosomes are brightly bioluminescent, flashing a pale blue-green light that can be seen for many tens of metres. Pyrosomes are closely related...
- genus of pyrosomes, marine colonial tunicates in the class Thaliacea. It contains four pelagic species found in temperate waters worldwide. Pyrosomes are filter...
- marine chordates within the subphylum Tunicata, comprising the salps, pyrosomes and doliolids. Unlike their benthic relatives the ascidians, from which...
- (sea squirts, paraphyletic with respect to Thaliacea) Thaliacea (salps, pyrosomes, and doliolids) Myxini (hagfish) Petromyzontida (lamprey) Chondrichthyes...
- Megaplankton > 20 cm metazoans; e.g. jellyfish; ctenop****s; salps and pyrosomes (pelagic Tunicata); Cephalopoda; Amphipoda Macroplankton 2→20 cm metazoans;...
- class Ascidiacea (sea squirts) 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...
- cephalodiscids and graptolites (Hemichordata) Lancelets (Amphioxiformes) Salps, pyrosomes, doliolids, larvaceans and sea squirts (Tunicata) Cycliophora (currently...
- is marine and occurs in the subtropical Indian Ocean. Like other other pyrosomes, the species' life cycle includes both clonal and ****ual phases. Colonies...
- salinities over 2.5%. While members of the Thaliacea (salps, doliolids and pyrosomes) and Appendicularia (larvaceans) swim freely like plankton, sea squirts...