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
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
Tunicate - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Bluebell tunicates Colonies of tunicate Botrylloides violaceus Note new zooid buds within colonies and along margins of colonies Colony of Botryllus Tunicates (sea squirts or Urochordata) are a subphylum of the Chordates They are sea filter-feeders: they live mainly on plankton
Tunicate (Urochordata) - NatureStyle Tunicate Urochordata, the tunicates, are fascinating marine filter feeders As adults, they anchor to ocean surfaces, but their larval form reveals a chordate link