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    Pyrosomes are free-floating colonial tunicates in family Pyrosomatidae. Pyrosomes consist of colonies of small Zooids. There are three genera, Pyrosoma...
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    directly connected by tissue (e.g. corals, Catenulida, Siphonophorae, Pyrosome or Ectoprocta) or share a common exoskeleton (e.g. Bryozoa or Pterobranchia)...
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    marine chordates within the subphylum Tunicata, comprising the salps, pyrosomes and doliolids. Unlike their benthic relatives the ascidians, from which...
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    attached to rocks or other hard surfaces on the ocean floor. Thaliaceans (pyrosomes, doliolids, and salps) and larvaceans on the other hand, swim in the pelagic...
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    salinities over 2.5%. While members of the Thaliacea (salps, doliolids and pyrosomes) and Appendicularia (larvaceans) swim freely like plankton, sea squirts...
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  • Pyrosoma aherniosum is a species of pyrosome in the genus Pyrosoma. It was first described in 1895 by Oswald Seeliger from material collected on the Plankton...
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    genus of pyrosomes, marine colonial tunicates in the class Thaliacea. It contains four pelagic species found in temperate waters worldwide. Pyrosomes are filter...
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    paraphyletic as thaliaceans are excluded) Class Thaliacea (salps, doliolids and pyrosomes) Class Appendicularia (larvaceans) Subphylum Vertebrata (Craniata) (vertebrates...
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    Pyrostremma is a genus of marine pyrosome containing 2 species. Pyrostremma contains the following species: Pyrostremma agassizi (Ritter & Byxbee, 1905)...
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    megamouth. Sperm whales have also been noted to feed on bioluminescent pyrosomes such as Pyrosoma atlanticum. It is thought that the foraging strategy...
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    that may have been a serpent. Giant oarfish Gyarados Kraken Lindworm Nāga Pyrosome Selma Stronsay Beast Ogopogo Jörmungandr Imugi (Korea) Mizuchi (Japan)...
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  • Salicornia virginica, native to North America Sesuvium portulacastrum Pyrosome, cone-shaped colonies that inhabit the upper layers of the open ocean Samphire...
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  • Pyrosomella is a genus of pyrosome that is usually smaller than typical pyrosoma. They are less than a centimeter to several meters long. They are most...
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  • daughter of Bob Gorman, Fontaine's best friend, and Ant’s crush. Commander Pyrosome (voiced by Nicole Oliver) is the leader of the World Oceans Authority,...
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    cephalodiscids and graptolites (Hemichordata) Lancelets (Amphioxiformes) Salps, pyrosomes, doliolids, larvaceans and sea squirts (Tunicata) Cycliophora (currently...
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    There are 81 species of tunicate (subphylum Tunicata) recorded in Ireland. Clavelina lepadiformis (light-bulb sea squirt) Didemnum fulgens Didemnum maculosum...
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    deep-sea fish, jellyfish, fireflies, Rhagophthalmidae, Pyrophorus beetles, pyrosome, Mycena, Omphalotus nidiformis mushrooms, Vargula hilgendorfii, Quantula...
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    according to a 2021 study. In the study, the researchers took samples of the pyrosome's microbiome. The results of the study found that a possible source of bioluminescence...
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  • This list of sequenced animal genomes contains animal species for which complete genome sequences have been assembled, annotated and published. Substantially...
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  • (sea squirts, paraphyletic with respect to Thaliacea) Thaliacea (salps, pyrosomes, and doliolids) Myxini (hagfish) Petromyzontida (lamprey) Chondrichthyes...
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    Female Earth Core Tech (2) Super Monsters – Cleo's Mom The Deep – Commander Pyrosome The Dragon Prince - Zubeia The Girl Who Leapt Through Time – Makoto's Mother...
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    squirts, may provide clues to vertebrate and therefore human ancestry. Pyrosomes are free-floating bioluminescent tunicates made up of hundreds of individuals...
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  • Pyrosomella verticillata, the fire salp, is a species of colonial pyrosome with an Indo-Pacific distribution. An individual P. verticillata zooid is typically...
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    siphonophores, ctenophores and cephalopods. Jellyfish This free-floating pyrosome is made up of hundreds of individual bioluminescent tunicates Salp chain...
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    ocean. Tuscaridiums make cellular colonies (they make a colony like a pyrosome ). The genus contains bioluminescent species. It one of two known bioluminescent...
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    Megaplankton > 20 cm metazoans; e.g. jellyfish; ctenophores; salps and pyrosomes (pelagic Tunicata); Cephalopoda; Amphipoda Macroplankton 2→20 cm metazoans;...
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    density, measured by concentration of the secreted molecules, is high. Pyrosomes are colonial tunicates and each zooid has a pair of luminescent organs...
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  • pyromancy, pyromania, pyromaniac, pyrometric, pyrophobia, pyrophoric, pyrosis, pyrosome, pyrotechnic pyramid- Greek πυραμίς, πυραμίδος dipyramid, pyramid, pyramidion...
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    through their metamorphosis while still inside the egg, and salps and pyrosomes have both lost the larval stage, it makes the larvaceans the only tunicates...
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    Tunicata. They are in the class Thaliacea, which also includes the salps and pyrosomes. The doliolid body is small, typically 1–2 mm long, and barrel-shaped;...
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