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Yes. So are lancelets. Both are invertebrates under phylum Chordata.
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What is a strange invertebrate?
Tunicates, (Sea squirts, Sea tulips) should adequately meet your desire for strange!
Is phylum Chordata represents vertebrate animals exclusively?
No, the phylum Chordata includes both vertebrate and invertebrate animals. Vertebrates are a subphylum within Chordata and have a backbone or spinal column, whereas invertebrate chordates, like tunicates and lancelets, lack a backbone.
Why are the tunicates and lanceletes classified as invertebrate chordates?
Phylum Chordata simply consists of all animals that, at least in their embryonic phase, have a structure called the notochord. In the vertebrates, the notochord develops into the vertebrae, i.e. the backbone. Some primitive chordates, though, including the tunicates, lancelets, and hagfish, do not ever develop vertebrae, although they have/have had a notochord. Hence, Subphyla Urochordata and Cephalochordata, and Class Myxini are invertebrate chordates.
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 scientific name of tunicates?
The scientific name for tunicates is Phylum Chordata, Subphylum Tunicata.
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 do tunicates eliminate nitrogenous wastes from their bodies?
Tunicates are invertebrate marine animals. These animals have very simplistic or lack an excretory systems and must eliminate nitrogenous waste through the diffusion of ammonia through their tissues. A sea squirt is a tunicate.
What do Tunicates resemble floor of the sea?
emmilee
How can tunicates be not vertebrates?
Because they have no back bone
Does tunic-ate have vertebrates?
Tunicates are invertebrates.
