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tunicate

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urochordate

any minute marine chordate of the subphylum Tunicata, containing the sea squirts. They feed by ciliary action and lack a NOTOCHORD, though one is present in the tail of the tadpole larva.
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Percent of Total Known Marine Species by Taxonomic Group Taxonomic Group Percent CRUSTACEANS (lobsters, shrimp, krill) 19 MOLLUSKS (squid, clams, snails) 17 FISH (cod, catfish, tuna) 12 ALGAE (and other plantlike organisms) 10 PROTOZOA (unicellular microorganisms) 10 CNIDARIANS (jellyfish, corals, hydra) 5 ECHINODERMS (starfish, sea urchins, sea cucumbers) OTHER VERTEBRATES (seals, seabirds, turtles) 2 OTHER INVERTEBRATES (sponges, sea squirts, worms) 22 SOURCE: CENSUS OF MARINE LIFE Graph It
Counting critters
From the evolutionary standpoint, individuals who play without getting themselves killed are mere likely to reproduce successfully, whether they are sea squirts (one of the book's examples) or humans.
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The thyroid gland, which produces and stores vital thyroid hormones, is introduced as not only the largest endocrine gland but also the oldest phylogenetically; even sea squirts have a thyroid.
Clinical management of thyroid disease
In a memorandum it explained that should EU ministers back the move, "Greenland can trade these commodities with the Union [as if they were produced within the EU] provided that Greenland transposes EU sanitary and, where appropriate, animal health rules on fishery products, live bivalve molluscs and by-products derived from these sources." The deal would also cover echinoderms (such as sea urchins and sea cucumbers), tunicates (for instance sea squirts) and marine gastropods (these include whelks, winkles and abalone).
Greenland to secure fish export health deal with EU
The translucent creatures were sea squirts, animals that usually feed by pushing seawater through their bodies and filtering out plankton.
Jason encounters the carnivorous sea squirt

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