Bathochordaeus charon - Wikipedia
Bathochordaeus charon is a species of giant larvacean, a solitary, free-swimming tunicate that filter feeds in surface waters. The species was named after Charon, the mythical Greek ferryman who carried the souls of the dead across the rivers dividing the world of the living from the world of the dead.
First description of this very large larvacean was provided in 1900 by Carl Chun from two specim…Wikipedia · Tekst onder CC-BY-SA-licentie- Geschatte leestijd: 1 min.
The first definitive record of the giant larvacean,
Meer bekijken op mbr.biomedcentral.comKey diagnostic features of Bathochordaeus charon are (letters in parentheses refer to structures in Figs. 2, 3 and 4): 1. Two funnel-shaped spiracles with the inner, pharyngeal opening many times smaller than the outer, ventral opening (Fig. 3). 2. A large expansion of the esophagus (Figs. 1, 2 and 3). The function i…- Auteur: R. E. Sherlock, K. R. Walz, B. H. Robison
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- Publish Year: 2016
- Gepubliceerd: 30 aug. 2016
Mysterious Ocean Blob Found for First Time in a Century
WEB6 dec. 2016 · Scientists have now confirmed that the creature is a second sighting of the species Bathochordaeus charon, named for the mythical Greek ferryman who was …
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WEB1 dec. 2016 · Three species of Bathochordaeus can be found in Monterey Bay: Bathochordaeus stygius, Bathochordaeus charon, and a newly …
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Mysterious Deep-Sea Animal Rediscovered after 116 …
WEB6 dec. 2016 · Bathochordaeus charon — an extremely rare species of giant larvacean — has been rediscovered, more than a century after the only previous known specimens of the species were found.
Scientists Finally Spot Giant, Slimy Sea Blob First Found …
WEB7 dec. 2016 · Bathochordaeus charon MBARI. In the late 1890s, Carl Chun, a biologist at Leipzig University, found something unusual: a candy bar-sized larvacean surrounded by a translucent blob of snot the...
Morphology, ecology, and molecular biology of a new species of …
WEB15 dec. 2016 · The first definitive record of the giant larvacean, Bathochordaeus charon, since its original description in 1900 and a range extension to the northeast Pacific …
Revealing enigmatic mucus structures in the deep sea …
WEB3 jun. 2020 · The first definitive record of the giant larvacean, Bathochordaeus charon, since its original description in 1900 and a range extension to the northeast Pacific Ocean. Mar. Biodivers.
Giant Larvacean Houses: Rapid Carbon Transport to …
WEB10 jun. 2005 · The first giant larvacean identified, Bathochordaeus charon, was discovered in 1898, but their feeding structures were unknown until the 1960s, when they were observed during submersible dives .
FIRST RECORDS OF A GIANT PELAGIC TUNICATE, …
WEBBathochordaeus charon was first described as a new genus and species by Chun (1900:519-521) on the basis of two gigantic speci mens taken in 1898 in the …
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