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What is scientific name of tunicates?
The scientific name for tunicates is Phylum Chordata, Subphylum Tunicata.
What is the common name for subphylum urochordata?
The common name for subphylum Urochordata is tunicates or sea squirts. These marine animals are characterized by their cylindrical bodies encased in a tough tunic made of cellulose.
What eats tunicates?
Tunicates are part of the phylum Chordata, and there are as many of 2,150 species of them. Sea stars, flatworms, and snails are some of the predators of tunicates.
What animals eat Predatory Tunicates?
the hawsbill and leatherback sea turtle eats tunicates
What is the popular name for chordates?
There isn't a "popular name" for them. The most familiar chordates are the vertebrates, but not all chordates are vertebrates (tunicates, for example, are chordates).
What Tunicates and lancelets are two subphyla of animals classified as what?
chordates
Do tunicates and lanceletes have back bones?
No. They are both chordates, which means during embryonic development they have a notochord, the same as vertebrates. This does not persist in tunicates, but it does in lancelets (adults still have a notochord). Neither tunicates or lancelets have a backbone.
How can tunicates be not vertebrates?
Because they have no back bone
Does tunic-ate have vertebrates?
Tunicates are invertebrates.
What do Tunicates resemble floor of the sea?
emmilee
The Chordata phylum consists of?
Tunicates and lancelets
What classifications are tunicates and lanceletes?
Tunicates and lancelets represent the two groups of jawless fish. All other species of jawless fish have gone extinct.
