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Definition of Thaliacea
1. Noun. Small class of free-swimming tunicates; sometimes classified as an order.
Group relationships: Subphylum Tunicata, Subphylum Urochorda, Subphylum Urochordata, Tunicata, Urochorda, Urochordata
Member holonyms: Family Salpidae, Salpidae, Doliolidae, Family Doliolidae
Generic synonyms: Class
Definition of Thaliacea
1. n. pl. A division of Tunicata comprising the free-swimming species, such as Salpa and Doliolum.
Medical Definition of Thaliacea
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Thaliacea
Literary usage of Thaliacea
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of the Common Invertebrate Animals: Exclusive of Insects by Henry Sherring Pratt (1916)
"The thaliacea have what is usually called an alternation of generations, ...
Key to the orders of thaliacea: 17, Respiratory partition plate-like 1. ..."
2. A Student's Text-book of Zoology by Adam Sedgwick, Joseph Jackson Lister, Arthur Everett Shipley (1909)
"... they are said to arise from mesoderm. It is difficult to believe that this
difference really exists. Order 2. thaliacea. ..."
3. Handbook of Zoology by Jan van der Hoeven (1856)
"ORDER I. thaliacea. Body prismatico-cylindrical, with two apertures opposite,
sub- terminal. Covering pellucid, thin, rigid. Animals swimming freely ..."
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