WoRMS taxon details
Salpa maxima Forskål, 1775
AphiaID: 137273
AphiaID: 137273
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Tunicata (Subphylum) > Thaliacea (Class) > Salpida (Order) > Salpidae (Family) > Salpinae (Subfamily) > Salpa (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Biphora Bruguière, 1789 Salpa Forskål, 1775 | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Salpa Forskål, 1775 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Salpa africana Forskål, 1775 (junior synonym) Salpa birostrata Blainville, 1827 (junior synonym) Salpa dubia Chamisso, 1819 (junior synonym) Salpa forskalii Lesson, 1830 (junior synonym) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Forskål, P. (1775). Descriptiones animalium, avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium, quae in itenere orientali observavit. Hafniae: Möller. 164 p. [details] basis of record: Van Soest, R.W.M. 1974b. A revision of the genera Salpa Forskål, 1775, Pegea Savigny, 1816, and Ritteriella Metcalf, 1919 (Tunicata, Thaliacea). Beaufortia 22 (293): 153-191. [details] additional source: Kott, P. ; Esnal, G. (2009). Tunicata. In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] additional source: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: van der Land, J.; van Soest, R.W.M. (2001). Thaliacea, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 355-356 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Godeaux, J. (1960). Contributions to the knowledge of the Red Sea: 29. Tuniciers pélagiques du Golfe d'Eylath. Bull. Sea Fish. Res. Stat. Haifa 18: 9-15. (look up in IMIS) [details] from synonym: Lesson, R.P. (1830) Centuria zoologique. Paris, 244 p. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Chamisso, A. Von 1819. De animalibus quibusdam e classe Vermium Linnaeana. In: Circumnavigatione Terrae auspicante Comte N. Romanzoff, duce Ottone de Kotzbue, annis 1815-1818 peracta. Berolini, Dummlerum. [details] [view taxon] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Variety Salpa maxima var. tuberculata Metcalf, 1918 accepted as Salpa tuberculata Metcalf, 1918 | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Antarctic Ocean [details] Canadian Exclusive Economic Zone [Pacific part] [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] FAO fishing area 67 [details] Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Mediterranean Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] North East Pacific [details] North Pacific [details] North West Atlantic [details] Red Sea [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Antarctic Invertebrates To Biodiversity Heritage Library (209 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 0 proteins) To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Chordata Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Distribution: circum-(sub)tropical [details] Habitat: Epipelagic [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137273 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Salpa maxima Forskål, 1775. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137273 on 2013-05-26 | ||||||||||||||
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