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. - 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. - 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.
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
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