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- Tunicate - Wikipedia
About 3,000 species of tunicate exist in the world's oceans, living mostly in shallow water The most numerous group is the ascidians ; fewer than 100 species of these are found at depths greater than 200 m (660 ft) [ 14 ]
- Tunicate | Anatomy, Habitat Adaptations | Britannica
tunicate, any member of the subphylum Tunicata (Urochordata) of the phylum Chordata Small marine animals, they are found in great numbers throughout the seas of the world Adult members are commonly embedded in a tough secreted tunic containing cellulose (a glucose polysaccharide not normally found in animals) The less modified forms are
- Whats a Tunicate? - UW Departments Web Server
What's a Tunicate? Tunicates, commonly called sea squirts, are a group of marine animals that spend most of their lives attached to docks, rocks or the undersides of boats To most people they look like small, colored blobs
- Tunicates—Not So Spineless Invertebrates | Smithsonian Ocean
The name “tunicate” comes from their outer covering, called the tunic, that protects the animal from predators, like sea stars, snails and fish Unlike the sessile sea squirts, other kinds of tunicates float in the water their entire lives
- Tunicate - Examples, Characteristics, Anatomy, and Pictures
What is a tunicate How and what do they feed Where do they live and reproduce Learn their types, classification, organ system, and development with images
- Tunicates Explained - Features, Facts, and Examples
Meet the travelers of the tunicate family and find out how sea salps form incredible chains and help clean our oceans in this related article
- Tunicates: Current Biology - Cell Press
They are called tunicates because the zooids are encased in an extracellular sheath or tunic, which unusually for animals contains cellulose, synthesized by a cellulose synthase that was evidently acquired in an ancestral tunicate by horizontal gene transfer from a bacterium
- Tunicate - New World Encyclopedia
Tunicate blood is particularly interesting It contains high concentrations of the rare metal vanadium and vanadium-associated proteins Some Tunicates can concentrate vanadium up to a level one million times that of the surrounding seawater
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