Definition of Salps. Meaning of Salps. Synonyms of Salps

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Definition of Salps

Salp
Salp Salp (s[a^]lp), n. (Zo["o]l.) Any species of Salpa, or of the family Salpid[ae].

Meaning of Salps from wikipedia

- declined, salp po****tions appear to be increasing. Salps have been seen in increasing numbers along the coast of Washington, United States. Salps have a...
- amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals); Tunicata or Urochordata (sea squirts, salps, and larvaceans); and Cephalochordata (lancelets). The Vertebrates and Tunicates...
- tunicates (such as salps), and some jellyfish also employ jet propulsion. The most efficient jet-propelled organisms are the salps, which use an order...
- phytoplankton. The ecology of this species is not fully understood. Like other salps, T. **** feeds by consuming plankton nutrient water on one end of its...
- a class of marine animals within the subphylum Tunicata, comprising the salps, pyrosomes and doliolids. Unlike their benthic relatives the ascidians,...
- holoplankton spend their entire life cycle as plankton (e.g. most algae, copepods, salps, and some jellyfish). By contrast, meroplankton are only planktic for part...
- hard surfaces on the ocean floor. Thaliaceans (pyrosomes, doliolids, and salps) and larvaceans on the other hand, swim in the pelagic zone of the sea as...
- Ascidiacea (sea squirts, paraphyletic with respect to Thaliacea) Thaliacea (salps, pyrosomes, and doliolids) Myxini (hagfish) Petromyzontida (lamprey) Chondrichthyes...
- parasitic behavior. Females of P. sedentaria live in the barrel-like bodies of salps, pyrosomes, and cnidarians, and use their strong pleopods to propel their...
- groups is inexact. Some authorities have called the comb jellies and certain salps jellyfish, though other authorities state that neither of these are jellyfish...