Species Profile
Herdmania
Red sea squirt
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassAscidiacea
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Herdmania inhabits shallow marine waters.
Sessile and filter-feeding.
Commonly studied urochordate.
Size & Structure
01
Oval or globular body
02
Hard leathery tunic
03
Red or orange colour
04
Two short siphons
Herdmania — 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 in adult
- 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
Filter feeder
Removes suspended particles
Marine ecosystem balance
Economic Importance
Zoology practical specimen
Research on chordate ancestry
Educational importance