Image of Clavelina huntsmani Van Name 1931
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Description:
This actually is a colonial filter feeding animal, though the individuals are borne in separate tubes of tunic. The 'filaments' of the light-bulbs form a groove in the wall of the pharynx, the endostyle. Here iodine is extracted from sea water to form a compound akin to thyroxin. Larvae are brooded at the base of each light-bulb.
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- Life
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- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (animals)
- Bilateria
- Deuterostomia (deuterostomes)
- Chordata (Chordates)
- Tunicata (tunicates)
- Ascidiacea (Ascidian)
- Aplousobranchia
- Clavelinidae
- Clavelina
- Clavelina huntsmani
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- 2005 California Academy of Sciences
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- Lovell and Libby Langstroth
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