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Pyrosoma atlanticum

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Pyrosoma atlanticum is a pelagic species of marine colonial tunicate in the class Thaliacea found in temperate waters worldwide. The name of the genus comes from the Greek words pyros meaning 'fire' and soma meaning 'body', referring to the bright bioluminescence sometimes emitted. The specific epithet atlanticum refers to the Atlantic Ocean, from where the first specimen of the species was collected for scientific description; it was described in 1804 by François Péron, a French naturalist.
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♦ 4Feeding habits of some demersal fish on the Charleston Bump off the southeastern United States, Sarah F. Goldman and George R. Sedberry, ICES Journal of Marine Science (2011), 68(2), 390–398.
♦ 5A comparative study of the feeding ecology of Nephrops norvegicus (L.), (Decapoda: Nephro- pidae) in the bathyal Mediterranean and the adjacent Atlantic, MARGARIDA CRISTO and JOAN E. CARTES, SCI. MAR., 62 (Supl. 1): 81-90
♦ 6"Diet of New Zealand sea lions (Phocarctos hookeri) at the Auckland Islands", Simon Childerhouse, Bruce Dix and Nick Gales, Wildlife Research 28(3) 291 - 298 (2001)
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0