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The three orders of thaliaceans are filter feeders. Pyrosomes are colonial animals, with multiple tiny ascidian-like zooids arranged in a cylinder closed at one end. All of the atrial siphons point inwards, emptying into a single, common cloaca in the centre of the cylinder. As the water exhaled by the zooids exits through a … See more
The class is a relatively small one, and is divided into three orders:
Class Thaliacea
• Order Pyrosomida Jones 1848
• See moreWikipedia text under CC-BY-SA license Anatomy of Thaliacea | The Biology of Pelagic Tunicates | Oxford …
WEBAbstract. The three thaliacean groups, pyrosomas, salps and doliolids, differ from each other not only in their anatomy, but also in their locomotion, buoyancy, sensory systems …
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WEBThe three orders of Thaliacea differ in anatomy, locomotion, buoyancy and embryonic development. Thaliaceans are ubiquitous and they are common from coastal waters to …
Tunicata | SpringerLink
WEBTunicates are a group of marine filter-feeding animals that have been traditionally divided into three classes: (1) Appendicularia, also known as larvaceans because their free …
Structure and ultrastructure of eyes and brains of Thalia ... - PubMed
WEBEach eye is an inverse eye that consists of two different cell types: pigment cells (pigc) and rhabdomeric photoreceptor cells (prcs). The oozooid stage of T. democratica is …
A molecular phylogeny of the Thaliacea - Oxford Academic
WEBDec 14, 2010 · Thaliaceans are gelatinous holoplanktonic tunicates comprised of around 72 described species in three orders: the Pyrosomatida (pyrosomes), Salpida (salps) …
The oral sensory structures of Thaliacea (Tunicata) and ... - PubMed
WEBAug 15, 2013 · We analyzed the mouth of three species, representative of the three orders of the class Thaliacea (Tunicata)--Pyrosoma atlanticum (Pyrosomatida), Doliolum …
An annotated checklist of Thaliaceans (Chordata: Tunicates)
WEBA checklist of the Class Thaliacea is presented after an extensive literature review. Synonymies, type locality, diagnostic characters of different life cycle stages and a …
Tunicates - ScienceDirect
WEBFeb 22, 2016 · There are three classes of tunicates, Ascidiacea, Thaliacea, and Appendicularia (Figure 1), with over 2000 species of ascidians, about 72 species of …
Phylogenetic analysis of phenotypic characters of …
WEBThaliacea, now recovered monophyletic, is the sister taxon to Aplousobranchiata, which, however, was represented by a single OTU. Note the identical position of Appendicularia as the sister taxon to the …
