Species Cyclosalpa sewelli Metcalf, 1927

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• Cyclosalpa pinnata sewelli Metcalf, M.M. 1927. Seymour Sewell on 'Salps of the Indian Seas'. Science (Washington, D.C.) 65: 257 [257] [proposed with subspecific rank in Cyclosalpa pinnata Forskål, 1775].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Nankauri Harbour, Nicobar Is.

  Secondary source:

   Van Soest, R.W.M. 1974. Taxonomy of the subfamily Cyclosalpinae Yount, 1954, with descriptions of two new species. Beaufortia 22(288): 17-55.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Pacific waters roughly between 30ºN and 30ºS, records not often distinguished from those of Cyclosalpa polae and Cyclosalpa pinnata [Salpidae].

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Timor Province (2), Cape Province (20), Northwest Transition (3), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: NE oceanic
  • Western Australia: NW oceanic, W oceanic

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, planktonic.

 

General References

Neumann, G. 1935. Thaliacea. pp. 203-500 in Kükenthal, W. & Krumbach, T. (eds). Handbuch der Zoologie. Berlin : Walter de Gruyter Vol. 5(2).

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)