Genus Salpa Forsskål, 1775

Museums

Regional Maps

• Salpa 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] [nomen conservandum; senior homonym, Salpa Edwards, 1771 (Pisces) suppressed].

  Type species:

   Salpa maxima Forsskål, 1775 by original designation.
• Biphora Bruguière, J.G. 1792. Histoire Naturelle des Vers. pp. 23–24, 26, 141–157, 178–188 pl. 75 fig. 5 in, Encyclopédie Méthodique Vol. 1. Paris and Liege : Panckoucke. [nom. nov. for Salpa Forskål, 1775].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Worldwide.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

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), Central Western Transition (5)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Central E coast, Lower E coast
  • Queensland: Central E coast
  • Tasmania: Bass Strait, Tas. coast
  • Victoria: Bass Strait

Neotropical Region

• Chile

Distribution References

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		30-Nov-2017	MODIFIED