Pteropod

In Orr et al. 2005, the damaging effects of keeping a live pteropod in undersaturated water are shown in microphotographs. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Is it something analogous to the pteropod of an amoeba, which projects itself from the body, then retreats into it only to reappear in another place? ❋ Hamlin Garland (1900)

Were they conceived from the contemplation of the carcasses of the ichthyosaurus and pteropod, and did the terror of men hear the sound of their feet in the tall grass and the wind howl when their voices filled the caves? ❋ Gustave Flaubert (1850)

Growth cycle and related vertical distribution of the cosomatous pteropod ❋ Unknown (2010)

Scientists caution the current frantic increase of seawater acidity is already causing serious problems for the pteropod, a sort of sea snail vital for the Arctic food chain. ❋ Unknown (2010)

There is still a chance to save species like the pteropod, according to Iris Menn, a marine biologist with Greenpeace which shipped the giant test-tubes up to Svalbard. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Of particular interest was a swimming snail which 'spins' a mucus net to catch food, a carnivorous pteropod which feeds exclusively on its 'relatives, and a crustacean known as an ❋ Unknown (2009)

Rich stores of minerals have been accumulating on the floor of the continental shelf - some freighted down the rivers from the lands; some derived from sea creatures that have died and whose remains have drifted down to the bottom; some from the shells that once encase a diatom, the streaming protoplasm of a radiolarian, or the transparent tissues of a pteropod. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Combine that situation with the summertime upwelling of deep, acidified water that occurs off B. C.'s coast and you have a substantial risk to an important food source for salmon: the pteropod or sea butterfly. ❋ [email protected] (Province: Ethan Baron (2009)

But Huseby's crush isn't unwarranted: The humble pteropod serves as food for a large variety of fish who become meals for larger fish as well as birds and mammals (and us!), making them vital to the marine food chain. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The pteropod isn't the only organism that will be affected by the increasing acidity of the ocean, though. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Other sensitive areas are the Southern Ocean and the subpolar North Pacific, where acidification threatens to unravel important food chains by making life difficult for a small marine snail called a pteropod. ❋ Unknown (2008)