Species Profile
Doliolum
Doliolid
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassThaliacea
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Doliolum inhabits open seas.
Pelagic and filter-feeding.
Important for studying life cycles.
Size & Structure
01
Small barrel-shaped body
02
Transparent tunic
03
Muscular rings present
04
Free-swimming
Doliolum — 3D Model
No 3D model available
General Features
- Coelom
- Coelomate
- Body plan
- Tube within a tube body plan (Deuterostomous)
- Germ layer
- Triploblastic
- Metamerism
- Absent
- Body symmetry
- Bilateral
- Fertilization
- External
- Digestion type
- Complete
- Nervous system
- Reduced nerve ganglion
- Excretory organ
- Renal vesicles
- Body temperature
- Poikilothermic, stenohaline
- Circulatory type
- Open circulation
- Development type
- Indirect
- Respiratory type
- Pharyngeal respiration through gill slits
- Mode of excretion
- Ammonotelism
- Circulation system
- Open
- Skeleton structure
- Absent
- Level of Organisation
- Organ system level
- Regulation of Osmosis
- Osmoregulator
Ecology
Planktonic filter feeder
Nutrient cycling
Part of marine plankton
Economic Importance
Ocean productivity indicator
Research on polymorphism
Marine biology studies