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Larvaceans,
copelates or appendicularians,
class Appendicularia, are solitary, free-swimming
tunicates found throughout the world's oceans.
While larvaceans...
- Bathochordaeus, the
giant larvaceans, is a
genus of
larvacean tunicates in the
family Oikopleuridae. They are free-swimming filter-feeding
marine animals...
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Melastomataceae Larvacean, an
animal of the
class Appendicularia in the
subphylum Tunicata Appendicularia (animal genus), a
genus in the
larvacean family Fritillariidae...
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chordates with a skull);
Tunicata or
Urochordata (sea squirts, salps, and
larvaceans),
which only
retain the
synapomorphies during their larval stage; and...
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Oikopleuridae is a
family of
larvacean tunicates. A
comparatively species-rich family, it has been
especially well-researched
thanks to the
ubiquity of...
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Bathochordaeus charon is a
species of
giant larvacean, a solitary, free-swimming
tunicate that
filter feeds in
surface waters. The
species was
named after...
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Bathochordaeus mcnutti, the blue-tailed
giant larvacean, is a
species of
larvacean in the
genus Bathochordaeus within the
family Oikopleuridae. It's found...
- Monterey, California; deep-sea
creatures such as the
barreleye and
giant larvacean live in
darkness at
depths of 2 to 3
miles (3.2 to 4.8 km) in Monterey...
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attract prey. A.
rosacea mimic fish larvae, A.
lucida are
thought to
mimic larvacean houses, and L.
utricularia mimic hydromedusa. The
species Resomia ornicephala...
- on the
ocean floor.
Thaliaceans (pyrosomes, doliolids, and salps) and
larvaceans on the
other hand, swim in the
pelagic zone of the sea as adults. Various...
