Species Pegea confoederata (Forsskål, 1775)
- Salpa confoederata Forsskål, P. 1775. Salpa. pp. 112-117 in, Descriptions Animalium …; quae in itinere orientali observavit. Hauniae : Heineck & Faber. 164 pp. [publication date established from Melville, R.V. 1969. Salpa Forskål, 1775 (Tunicata): Validated under the Plenary Powers with designation of a type species for Thalia Blumenbach, 1798. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 26(3): 136–138] [115].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, eastern Mediterranean Sea.Secondary source:
Van Soest, R.W.M. 1974. A revision of the genera Salpa Forskål, 1775, Pegea Savigny, 1816 and Ritteriella Metcalf, 1919 (Tunicata, Thaliacea). Beaufortia 22(293): 153-191 [171]. - Salpa gibba Bosc, L.A.G. 1802. Histoire Naturelle des Vers. In, Encyclopédie Méthodique Paris and. Liege : Panckoucke Vol. 2. [178].
Type data:
Status unknown, ZMUC (depository uncertain), Atlantic Ocean.Type locality references:
Blainville, H.M.D. de 1827. Salpa. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 26(3): 136-138 [110]. - Salpa scutigera Cuvier, G. 1804. Mémoire sur les Thalides (Thalia Browne) et sur les Biphores (Salpa Forskål). Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris 4: 360-382 pl. lxviii [379].
Type data:
Status unknown, locality unknown. - Salpa octophora Cuvier, G. 1804. Mémoire sur les Thalides (Thalia Browne) et sur les Biphores (Salpa Forskål). Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris 4: 360-382 pl. lxviii [379].
Type data:
Status unknown, locality unknown. - Salpa vivipara Péron, F. & Lesueur, C.A. 1807. pp. 45–46, & c pls xxx, xxxi (part) in, Voyage de découvertes aux Terres Australes … 1800–1804. Vol. 1. Paris. [pl. 31] [after Traustedt, M.P.A. 1885. Spolia Atlantica 1. Bidrag til Kundskab om Salperne. Danske Vid. Selsk. Skrift. 6(2): 337–400 pls i, ii].
Type data:
Status unknown, ZMUC (depository uncertain), locality unknown.Secondary source:
Traustedt, M.P.A. 1885. Spolia Atlantica 1. Bidrag til Kundskab om Salperne. Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs. Skrifter 6(2): 337-400 pls i, ii. - Salpa ferruginea Chamisso, A. von 1819. De Animalibus quibusdam e classe Vermium Linnaeana. Circumnavigatione Terrae auspicante comite N. Romanzoff, duce Ottone de Kotzbue, annis 1815–1818 peracta. Fasc. 1 De Salpha. Berolini : Apud. ferd. Dummlerum 24 pp. 1 pl. [23] [after Traustedt, M.P.A. 1885. Spolia Atlantica 1. Bidrag til Kundskab om Salperne. Danske Vid. Selsk. Skrift. 6(2): 337–400 pls i, ii].
Type data:
Status unknown, ZMUC (depository uncertain, not found), Mediterranean Sea.Secondary source:
Traustedt, M.P.A. 1885. Spolia Atlantica 1. Bidrag til Kundskab om Salperne. Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs. Skrifter 6(2): 337-400 pls i, ii. - Salpa femoralis Quoy, J.R.C. & Gaimard, J.P. 1834. Zoologie, Mollusques pp. 559–626. in, Voyages de découvertes de l'Astrolabe 1826–1829, Vol. 3. Paris : Pilet Ainé. [577].
Type data:
Status unknown, MNHP (depository uncertain, not found), Atlantic Ocean near Tropic of Cancer. - Salpa quadrata Herdman, W.A. 1888. Report upon the Tunicata collected during the voyage of H.M.S. 'Challenger', during the years 1873–1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 27(76): 1-166 pls i-xi [84].
Type data:
Status unknown, BMNH (depository uncertain, not found), North Atlantic Ocean [10°55'N 17°04'W].
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Van Soest, R.W.M. 1974. A revision of the genera Salpa Forskål, 1775, Pegea Savigny, 1816 and Ritteriella Metcalf, 1919 (Tunicata, Thaliacea). Beaufortia 22(293): 153-191 [171]
- Madin, L.P. & Harbison, G.R. 1978. Salps of the genus Pegea Savigny, 1816 (Tunicata: Thaliacea). Bulletin of Marine Science 28(2): 335-344
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
Warm and temperate parts of all oceans and Mediterranean.
IMCRA
Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- New South Wales: Central E coast, Lower E coast
- Queensland: Central E coast
- South Australia: Great Australian Bight
- Tasmania: Bass Strait, Tas. coast
- Victoria: Bass Strait
Ecological Descriptors
Marine, planktonic.
History of changes
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