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    Thaliacea is a class of marine chordates within the subphylum Tunicata, comprising the salps, pyrosomes and doliolids. Unlike their benthic relatives...
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  • (larvaceans) Ascidiacea (sea squirts, paraphyletic with respect to Thaliacea) Thaliacea (salps, pyrosomes, and doliolids) Myxini (hagfish) Petromyzontida...
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    usually in shallow water with salinities over 2.5%. While members of the Thaliacea (salps, doliolids and pyrosomes) and Appendicularia (larvaceans) swim...
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    classes: Ascidiacea (Aplousobranchia, Phlebobranchia, and Stolidobranchia) Thaliacea (Pyrosomida, Doliolida, and Salpida) Appendicularia (Copelata) Members...
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    The largest animal currently alive is the blue whale. The maximum recorded weight was 190 tonnes (209 US tons) for a specimen measuring 27.6 metres (91 ft)...
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    Pyrosoma is a genus of pyrosomes, marine colonial tunicates in the class Thaliacea. It contains four pelagic species found in temperate waters worldwide...
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    (Urochordata) – (tunicates; 3,000 species) Class Ascidiacea (sea squirts) Class Thaliacea (salps, doliolids and pyrosomes) Class Appendicularia (larvaceans) Subphylum...
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    This article contains a list of all of the classes and orders that are located in the Phylum Chordata. The subphyla Tunicata and Vertebrata are in the...
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    1835 (OED, "salp") Bone, Q. (1983). "Jet propulsion in salps (Tunicata: Thaliacea)". Journal of Zoology. 201 (4): 481–506. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1983...
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    small marine chordates of the subphylum Tunicata. They are in the class Thaliacea, which also includes the salps and pyrosomes. The doliolid body is small...
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