Image of Salpa Forskål 1775
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Description:
This is the cloned, sexual phase of a pelagic tunicate. The individuals, each a sequential hermaphrodite, lie in a double chain oriented back to back. Eventually the chain will break apart and each individual will sexually produce an asexual solitary salp. Inconceivably large numbers of aggregate salps can cover hundreds of square miles of ocean.
Included On The Following Pages:
- Life
- Cellular
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (animals)
- Bilateria
- Deuterostomia (deuterostomes)
- Chordata (Chordates)
- Tunicata (tunicates)
- Thaliacea
- Salpida
- Salpidae (salps)
- Salpinae
- Salpa
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- 2005 California Academy of Sciences
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- Lovell and Libby Langstroth
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