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Thaliaceans of the order Salpida are colonial, living in groups that can be over a meter long.
Those of the orders Salpida and Doliolida live singly.
They have a barrel-shaped body through which they pump water, propelling them through the sea and from which they extract food.
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 The Salps (Class Thaliacea)
They swim as they feed, or visa versa because like all the Urochordates they are filter feeders and they have their inhalant and exhalent siphons at opposite ends of their bodies.
The class is divided into 3 orders; the Pyrosomida which are colonial living and the Salpida and Doliolida which are not colonial.
Like the Tunicates they feed by drawing a current of water in through their inhalant siphon and out through the exhalent siphon.
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 Search Results for feeder - Encyclopædia Britannica
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any small, pelagic, gelatinous invertebrate of the orders Salpida and Doliolida (class Thaliacea, subphylum Tunicata).
Found in warm seas, salps are common in the Southern Hemisphere.
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 Ascidians
This Class is further subdivided into three subclasses.
The Pyrosomida are colonial and the Salpida and Doliolida are not.
The Ascidians on the other hand are a major part of the "cryptic fauna" of live rock...
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 Tectology IV
A number of them displays a very complex alternation of generations.
The salpids proper (Salpida) show an interesting colonial behavior.
The single living salpid originates from a fertilized egg and should accordingly be called an o o z o i d.
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 .:Sea & Lake Monsters:.
He has barnacled ridges along his body, and he propels himself in corkscrew fashion in waters about 180 feet in depth.
The University of California believes Marvin is a etenaphor jelly fish); Scripps Institute of Oceanography thinks he's a salpida: the University of Washington plumps for a siphonophore (another jelly fish,) the University of Texas believes simply that he is a creature left over from prehistoric times.
But the fishermen hunched over their beer glasses in Astoria taverns know otherwise.
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Blastozooid(phorozooids and gonozooids) of the Doliolum denticulatum and Dolioletta gegenburia dominated in the study area and comprised 99.2% of total doliolids.
Blastozooid(gonozooids) was also dominated in Salpida species and comprised 84.3% of total Salpida, except Thalia rhomboids that blastozooid occupied only 40.1%.
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