Larvacea (Noun)
Meaning
Small free-swimming tunicates; sometimes classified as an order.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- The larvae of some tunicate species have evolved to remain free-swimming, becoming known as larvacea.
- These free-swimming animals filter feed and provide nutrients for marine organisms by acting as marine "snow."
- Although most larvacea go through settlement at metamorphosis, these remain as plankton.
- Research indicates the ecological role of the small pelagic animals classified as larvacea to marine snow has grown since industrial pollution reduction measures took hold globally.
- Pelagic species are under ongoing re-classification by many authorities which led some authors to change status to reevaluate free swimming types sometimes previously assigned under this rank such as Thaliacea which became Tunicata also assigned Suborder Aplousobranchia the level sub-Orders becoming questionable that free swimmers Thaliacea - is different of 'seem to keep such position; called to just classify species name just remain simple Order sometimes changed a label when ranked order became so we started more simpler known so grouped label grouped usefully classification only from simply small grouped.