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salps
Gelatinous filter feeders, at times important phytoplankton grazers.

Their transparent bodies are barrel-shaped, open at both ends; they draw water in at one end and expel it at the other end as they move through the water.

Salps, along with the larvaceans, are protochordates.

This entry is located in the following unit: Ocean and Deep Sea Terms (page 5)