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salpa

NOUN
  1. minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end

How To Use salpa In A Sentence

  • Per. _, a _Planaria_, _Salpa vivipara Per. _, a _Pyrosoma_, resembling that of the Atlantic, and a _Lepas_, attached to the shell of the A New Voyage Round the World, in the years 1823, 24, 25, and 26, Vol. 2
  • Sarpa salpa, a species of sea bream now found in British waters, occasionally accumulates a powerful psychoactive compound called indole in its head, which can lead to ichthyoallyeinotoxism, or hallucinogenic fish poisoning. The Guardian World News
  • The abundance of the salp Salpa thompsoni at a station was expressed as numbers per 1,000 m 3 of water filtered.
  • Returning to the purpose of our interview, the researches Mr. Huxley laid before me were chiefly those on the Salpae, a much misunderstood group of marine Hydrozoa. The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
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