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+[[!meta title="A new mesopelagic larvacean, Mesochordaeus erythrocephalus, sp. nov., from Monterey Bay, with a description of its filtering house"]]
+[[!tag Oikopleura]]
+
+Russell R.Hopcroft and Bruce H.Robison
+
+Journal of Plankton Research, Volume 21, Issue 10, 1 October 1999, Pages 1923–1937, doi:10.1093/plankt/21.10.1923
+
+A new mesopelagic larvacean, _Mesochordaeus erythrocephalus_, sp. nov., from Monterey Bay, with a description of its filtering house
+
+[[!doi 10.1093/plankt/21.10.1923 desc="House is ~30cm ø; ~2 tail beats per s.
+Heavily pigmented digestive tract. “Although we are inclined to ally this
+genus most closely to Bathochordaeus, we note several features that raise
+questions with regard to its placement within the subfamily Bathochordaeinae
+(represented only by the genus Bathochordaeus) as opposed to the
+Oikopleurinae.”"]]
- _O. dioica_ was reported in Alaska, where it is more abundant in summer
and near the coast ([[Doubleday and Hopcroft, 2015|biblio/10.1093_plankt_fbu092]]).
+Other appendicularians
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+
+ - _Mesochordaeus erythrocephalus_ [[Hopcroft and Robinson,
+ 1999|biblio/10.1093_plankt_21.10.1923]]: mesopelagic species with a large
+ (~30 cm) house.
+
+
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