Species Profile
Salpa
Salpa
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassThaliacea
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Salpa lives in open marine waters.
It is pelagic and filter-feeding.
Important planktonic tunicate.
Size & Structure
01
Barrel-shaped transparent body
02
Two siphons at opposite ends
03
Muscular bands present
04
Free-swimming form
Salpa — 3D Model
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
Major planktonic filter feeder
Transfers carbon to deep sea
Important in marine food web
Economic Importance
Indicator of ocean productivity
Marine ecological studies
Carbon cycle research