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salp: see tunicate tunicate , marine animal of the phylum Chordata, which also includes the vertebrates. The adult form of most tunicates (also called urochordates) shows no resemblance to vertebrate animals, but such a resemblance is evident in the larva.
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Biologists Laurence Madin of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and Patricia Kremer of the University of Connecticut led researchers to the Mid-Atlantic Bight region (between Cape Hatteras and Georges Bank) in four summers since 1975, and each time found that one species, Salpa aspera, multiplied into dense swarms that lasted for months.
 
 
 
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