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appendicularia

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tadpole larva

the larva of a tunicate (ASCIDIACEA). It possesses a tail, NOTOCHORD and tubular nerve cord, and is indicative of the evolutionary relationships of the adults.
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House production by Oikopleura dioica (Tunicata, Appendicularia) under laboratory conditions.
Endostyle cell recruitment as a frame of reference for development and growth in the urochordate Oikopleura dioica
Este trabajo incluyo el analisis de muestras recolectadas con redes de 500, 200 y 100 [micro]m de apertura de poro, lo que permitio recolectar especies con distintas tallas (Fenaux & Palazzoli, 1979; Fenaux et al., 1998), incluyendo especies de tamano pequeno (~ 100 [micro]m) como Appendicularia sicula, Fritillaria charydbae, Fritillaria cf.
Taxonomic identification of appendicularians collected in the epipelagic waters off northern Chile (Tunicata, Appendicularia).
Dichotomous key for the identification of Apendicularians in the Eastern Tropical Pacific and Inter American Seas, with a species list for Costa Rica/Clave dicotomica para la identificacion de Apendicularias en el PacificoTropical Oriental y Mares Interamericanos, con un listado de especies para Costa Rica
Appendicularia (Order Copelata) and Chaetognatha, each one had 1.4% of total relative abundance.
Fish larvae showed the highest taxa number (107 taxa ranging from family to species) decreasing with Decapoda (56), Copepoda (35), Thecosomata (17), Amphipoda (15), Siphonophora (10), Chaetognatha (7), Euphausiacea (6), Cladocera (2), Mysidacea (2), Appendicularia (1), and Cephalopoda (1) (Table 3).
Procesos oceanograficos que posiblemente explican la dominancia de asociaciones de especies de zooplancton neritico tropical alrededor del Archipielago de Islas Marias, Mexico
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