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The Tunicate Web Portal; Dutch Ascidians: Extensive database of images from around the world; Aniseed: A model organism database for ascidians including Ciona intestinalis and Halocynthia roretzi; A Guide to the Shell and Starfish Galleries: (Mollusca, Polyzoa, Brachiopoda, Tunicata, Echinoderma, and Worms) (1901), British Museum (Natural ...
Clavelina picta, common name the painted tunicate, is a species of tunicate (sea squirt), in the genus Clavelina (the "little bottles"). These animals, like all ascidians , are sessile filter feeders .
A salp (pl.: salps, also known colloquially as “sea grape”) or salpa (pl.: salpae or salpas [2]) is a barrel-shaped, planktonic tunicate in the family Salpidae. It moves by contracting, thereby pumping water through its gelatinous body; it is one of the most efficient examples of jet propulsion in the animal kingdom. [3]
References A adhesive organ 1. An organ present at the anterior end of ascidian larvae, serving to attach the larva to the substrate during its metamorphosis. It is usually made of three papillae. 2. The individual papillae. atrium atrial pore atrial siphon Also excurrent siphon or exhalant siphon. Opening through which water exits the branchial basket in ascidians. B blastozooid Sexual ...
Ascidiacea, commonly known as the ascidians or sea squirts, is a paraphyletic class in the subphylum Tunicata of sac-like marine invertebrate filter feeders. [2] Ascidians are characterized by a tough outer test or "tunic" made of the polysaccharide cellulose.
Ecteinascidia turbinata, commonly known as the mangrove tunicate, is a species of tunicate in the family Perophoridae. [1] It was described to science in 1880 by William Abbott Herdman . The cancer drug trabectedin can be isolated from this species.
Clavelina moluccensis, common name bluebell tunicate, blue bell tunicate, or blue sea squirt [2] is a species of tunicate (sea squirt), in the genus Clavelina (the "little bottles"). Like all ascidians , these sessile animals are filter feeders .
Tunicata stubs (216 P) Pages in category "Tunicates" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...