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... > Science Keywords > EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > TUNICATES > LARVACEANS

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LARVACEANS  

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  • Class Appendicularia, Phylum Chordata, commonly called larvaceans are solitary, free-swimming tunicates characterized by a transparent body of a trunk housing internal organs and a tail with a notochord. The trunk secretes a mucous house that encloses the animal therefore making it a gelatinous zooplankton

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  • 2017-03-13 14:12:28.0 [mgenazzi] Definition added insert Definition (id: null text: Class Appendicularia, Phylum Chordata, commonly called larvaceans are solitary, free-swimming tunicates characterized by a transparent body of a trunk housing internal organs and a tail with a notochord. The trunk secretes a mucous house that encloses the animal therefore making it a gelatinous zooplankton language code: en);

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