Species Profile
Pyrosoma
Fire body
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassThaliacea
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Pyrosoma inhabits warm open oceans.
Pelagic and filter-feeding.
Known for glowing colonies.
Size & Structure
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Hollow tubular colony
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Numerous zooids embedded
03
Transparent body
04
Emits blue-green light
Pyrosoma — 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
Large-scale plankton filtration
Carbon transport to deep sea
Pelagic ecosystem role
Economic Importance
Bioluminescence research
Marine ecological importance
Oceanographic studies