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Salps: Thaliacea - Behavior And Reproduction, Salps And People, Pyrosome (pyrosoma Atlanticum): Species Accounts, Salp (thalia Democratica): Species Accounts - PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS, GEOGRAPHIC RANGE, HABITAT, DIET, CONSERVATION STATUS

PYROSOME (Pyrosoma atlanticum): SPECIES ACCOUNTS
SALP (Thalia democratica): SPECIES ACCOUNTS

Salps are tiny, drifting sea animals that have a clear cylindrical body with openings at each end. Between the openings is a basketlike structure covered by a sheet of mucus. The jelly-like body wall contains bands of muscle. Most salps are 0.2 to 8 inches (5 millimeters to 20 centimeters) long. Some colonies are many feet (meters) long.


GEOGRAPHIC RANGE

Salps live in warm and cool seas.


HABITAT

Most salps live near the surface, but some live in deeper water.


DIET

Salps eat plant plankton, or microscopic plants drifting in water.


CONSERVATION STATUS

Salps are not considered threatened or endangered.

Salps: Thaliacea - Behavior And Reproduction

Salps: Thaliacea - Salps And People

Salps: Thaliacea - Pyrosome (pyrosoma Atlanticum): Species Accounts

Salps: Thaliacea - Salp (thalia Democratica): Species Accounts

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