Biology:Pyrosoma
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Pyrosoma is a genus of pyrosomes, marine colonial tunicates in the class Thaliacea.[1][2] It contains four pelagic species found in temperate waters worldwide. Pyrosomes are filter feeders that uniquely use a type of continuous jet propulsion, generated by individual zooids, to slowly move forward while grazing; the species P. atlanticum has the highest known food clearance rate among zooplankton grazers. Colonies can reach lengths of up to 20 m (66 ft).[3]
Species
The genus contains four recognized species:[1]
- van Soest, 1981 Seeliger, 1895
- Neumann, 1909 Pyrosoma atlanticum
- Pyrosoma aherniosum Péron, 1804
- Pyrosoma godeauxi Pyrosoma ovatum
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedWoRMS - ↑ Péron, F. (1804). "Mémoire sur le nouveau genre Pyrosoma". Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle 4 (12): 437-446.
- ↑ Henschke, Natasha; Pakhomov, Evgeny A.; Kwong, Lian E.; Everett, Jason D.; Laiolo, Leonardo; Coghlan, Amy R.; Suthers, Iain M. (May 2019). "Large vertical migrations of Pyrosoma atlanticum play an important role in active carbon transport" (in en). Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 124 (5): 1056–1070. doi:10.1029/2018JG004918. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2018JG004918.
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