Species Salpa maxima Forsskål, 1775

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Species Salpa maxima Forsskål, 1775

Salpa maxima 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] [112].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, off Tunisian coast, 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.
Salpa africana 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] [116].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, near the Tunisian coast, Mediterranean Sea.
Secondary source:
Bosc, L.A.G. 1802. Histoire Naturelle des Vers. In, Encyclopédie Méthodique Paris and. Liege : Panckoucke Vol. 2. [180].
Salpa birostrata Blainville, H.M.D. de 1827. Salpa. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 26(3): 136-138 [119] [nom. nov. for Salpa maxima Forskål: Quoy & Gaimard, 1824].
Type data:
Syntype(s).
Salpa forskalii Lesson, R.P. 1830. Zoologie. pp. 256-279, 433-440 in Lesson, R.P. (ed.). Voyage autour du Monde sur la Corvette La Coquille pendant 1822–1825. Paris : P. Pourret Frères Vol. 2(1). [272].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Mediterranean Sea.

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 [158]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

North Atlantic Ocean, Cape Horn and coast of Chile, east and west Pacific Ocean to Bering Sea, Mediterranean Sea.

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

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 Western Transition (5)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- New South Wales: Lower E coast
- Tasmania: Bass Strait, Tas. coast
- Victoria: Bass Strait

Neotropical Region

Chile

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, planktonic.

Extra Ecological Information

Temperatures 12.7–23.8ºC.

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

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

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