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+[[!meta title="Appendicularians (Urochordata)"]]
+[[!tag Oikopleura]]
+
+Castellanos I.A., Morales-Ramírez Á., Suárez-Morales E.
+
+In: Wehrtmann I.S., Cortés J. (eds) Marine Biodiversity of Costa Rica, Central America. Monographiae Biologicae, vol 86. Springer, Dordrecht
+
+Appendicularians (Urochordata)
+
+[[!doi 10.1007/978-1-4020-8278-8_41 desc="O. dioica not reported in Costa Rica, but presence considered plausible."]]
- _O. dioica_ can filter, ingest and defecate the _Emiliania huxleyi_ virus
([[Lawrence and coll., 2017|biblio/10.1002_lno.10734]]). This study does not assess
whether the viruses are digested.
+ - While _O. dioica_ was not reported on the atlantic and pacific coasts of Costa Rica, its
+ presence is considered plausible ([[Castellanos, Morales-Ramírez and Suárez-Morales,
+ 2009|biblio/10.1007_978-1-4020-8278-8_41]]).
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