salp
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A free-swimming marine invertebrate related to the sea squirts, with a transparent barrel-shaped body.
- Several genera in the class Thaliacea, subphylum Urochordata.
- Some tunicates are entirely pelagic; known as salps, they typically have barrel-shaped bodies and may be extremely abundant in the open ocean.
- By fashioning their bodies into pulsating tubes, the salps are able, each day, to filter half the water column they inhabit, drawing out the phytoplankton and smaller zooplankton for food.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from French salpe, based on Greek salpē 'fish'.
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