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+[[!meta title="Giant larvacean houses: rapid carbon transport to the deep sea floor."]]
+[[!tag Oikopleura]]
+
+Robison BH, Reisenbichler KR, Sherlock RE.
+
+Science. 2005 Jun 10;308(5728):1609-11 doi:10.1126/science.1109104
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+Giant larvacean houses: rapid carbon transport to the deep sea floor.
+
+[[!pmid 15947183 desc="Bathochordaeus species may produce one house per day. Sinking houses are an important contribution to the carbon flux to the sea floor."]]
([[Katija and coll., 2018|biblio/28508058]]).
- Filter-feeding in marine animals has been reviewed by [[Conley, Lombard and
Sutherland (2018)|biblio/29720410]].
+ - _Bathochordaeus_ may produce one house per day ([[Robison, Reisenbichler and
+ Sherlock, 2005|biblio/15947183]]).
+ - _Mesochordaeus erythrocephalus_ [[(Hopcroft and Robinson,
+ 1999)|biblio/10.1093_plankt_21.10.1923]]: mesopelagic species with a large
+ (~30 cm) house.
+
Phenotypes
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most abundant in summer ([[Viñas and coll.,
2013|biblio/10.1080_17451000.2012.745003]]).
-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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