Definition of Larvacea

1. Noun. Small free-swimming tunicates; sometimes classified as an order.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Larvacea

Laroyenne's operation
Larrea
Larrea tridentata
Larrey's amputation
Larrey's cleft
Larrey-Weil disease
Larry
Lars
Lars Onsager
Larus
Larus argentatus
Larus canus
Larus marinus
Larus ridibundus
Larvacea (current term)
Las Cruces
Las Vegas
Las Vegas algorithm
Lasa
Lascar
Lascaux
Lasegue
Lasegue's disease
Lasegue's sign
Lasegue's syndrome
Laserdisc
Laserdiscs
Lash's operation
Lashkar

Literary usage of Larvacea

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eugen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1900)
"Systematic (after HERDMAN) : — Order I. Larvacea ... Larvacea • Very little is as yet known as to the development of Appendi- ..."

2. Forms of Animal Life: A Manual of Comparative Anatomy : with Descriptions of by George Rolleston, William Hatchett Jackson (1888)
"The caudal notochord of the Larvacea and of the larva is rod-like, and composed of ... A process of the ganglion in Larvacea and Thaliacea extends towards a ..."

3. Zoology of the Invertebrata: A Text-book for Students by Arthur Everett Shipley (1893)
"Larvacea, (ii.) THALIACEA, and (iii.) ASCIDIACEA. Order 1. ... Appendicularia, like the other Larvacea, is a minute free- tes.-' FiG. 261. ..."

4. A Text-book of Zoology by Thomas Jeffery Parker, William Aitcheson Haswell (1921)
"The Larvacea are minute transparent animals, in shape not unlike tadpoles, ... A remarkable peculiarity of the Larvacea is the power which they possess of ..."

5. Vertebrate Zoölogy by Horatio Hackett Newman (1920)
"The endostyle also occupies an anterior position similar to that of a larval Amphioxus. In almost every respect the Larvacea sug- FIG. 31. ..."

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