name: Tunicate

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name_scientific: Tunicata

description: Tunicates, previously known as Urochordata or urochordates, are members of the Tunicata, a subphylum of the phylum Chordata. They are marine filter feeders with a saclike morphology. In their respiration and feeding they take in water through an incurrent (or inhalant) siphon and expel the filtered water through an excurrent (or exhalant) siphon. Most adult tunicates are sessile and attached to rocks or similarly suitable surfaces on the ocean floor; others such as salps, doliolids and pyrosomes swim in the pelagic zone as adults. Various species are commonly known as sea squirts or sea pork. The Tunicata apparently evolved in the early Cambrian period. Despite their simple appearance, they are a sister subphylum to the Vertebrata.

itis_id: 203347

wikipedia_id: Tunicate

picture_file_name: 428.jpg

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picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:40:31.000Z

legacy_id: 455

food_group: Aquatic foods

food_subgroup: Other aquatic foods

food_type: Type 1

created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:41.000Z

updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:05:24.000Z

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export_to_afcdb: false

category: specific

ncbi_taxonomy_id: 7712

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