Species Salpa fusiformis Cuvier, 1804

Museums

Regional Maps

• Salpa fusiformis 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 [382].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, locality unknown.

  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 [166].
• Salpa runcinata 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. [16].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, near the Azores, Atlantic Ocean.

  Secondary source:

   Deshayes, G.P. & Milne Edwards, H. 1840. Tuniciers. pp. 473-541 in Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. Histoire naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : J.B. Ballière Vol. 3 770 pp.
• Biphora depressa Sars, M. 1829. Bidrag til Söedyrenes Naturhistorie, Forste Haefte. Bergen. 160 pp. [51].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, ?off Norway.
• Biphora tricuspidata Sars, M. 1829. Bidrag til Söedyrenes Naturhistorie, Forste Haefte. Bergen. 160 pp. [56].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, ?off Norway.
• Salpa coerulea 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. [589] ['biphore bleu' figured in Quoy, J.R.C. & Gaimard, J.P. 1833. Zoologie, Zoophytes pp. 304–306. in, Voyage de découvertes de l'Astrolabe 1824–1829 Vol. 4. Paris : Pilet Ainé. (pl. 89, figs 20–24)].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, MNHP (depository uncertain, not found), 30ºS 51ºW, Atlantic Ocean.

  Secondary source:

   Quoy, J.R.C. & Gaimard, J.P. 1833. Zoologie, Zoophytes pp. 304–306. in, Voyage de découvertes de l'Astrolabe 1824–1829 Vol. 4. Paris : Pilet Ainé.

 

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 [166]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Atlantic between 55ºS to 60ºN, Mediterranean Sea, Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean between 40ºS and 30ºN to Bering Sea.

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)

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

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, planktonic.

Extra Ecological Information

Water temperature 7–25.7ºC, able to withstand low temperatures.

 

General References

Deshayes, G.P. & Milne Edwards, H. 1840. Tuniciers. pp. 473-541 in Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. Histoire naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : J.B. Ballière Vol. 3 770 pp. (Salpa runcinata Chamisso, 1819 as Salpa ruminata (sic), Salpa coerulea Quoy & Gaimard, 1834 as Salpa caeculia (sic))

Foxton, P. 1961. On Salpa fusiformis Cuvier and related species. Discovery Reports 32: 1-32

 

History of changes

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