WoRMS taxon details
Thalia democratica (Forskål, 1775)
AphiaID: 137279
AphiaID: 137279
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Tunicata (Subphylum) > Thaliacea (Class) > Salpida (Order) > Salpidae (Family) > Salpinae (Subfamily) > Thalia (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Thalia Blumenbach, 1798 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Biphora democratica (Forskål, 1775) (genus transfer) Biphora mucronata (Forskål, 1775) (genus transfer and junior synonym) Dubreuillia cirrhosa Lesson, 1832 (genus transfer and junior synonym) Salpa (Thalia) democratica Forskål, 1775 (genus transfer) Salpa caboti Desor, 1848 (genus transfer and junior synonym) Salpa democratica Forskål, 1775 (genus transfer) Salpa democratica-mucronata Forskål, 1775 (genus transfer) Salpa mucronata Forskål, 1775 (genus transfer and junior synonym) Salpa spinosa Otto, 1823 (genus transfer and junior synonym) Thalia democratica f. typica Sewell, 1953 (junior synonym) Thalia lingulata Blumenbach, 1798 (junior synonym) Thalia mucronata (Forskål, 1775) (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] 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: Cole, L. and G. Lambert. 2009. Tunicata (Urochordata) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1209–1216 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [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: Gosner, K.L. 1978. A field guide to the Atlantic seashore. The Peterson Field Guide Series. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA. 329 p. [details] additional source: Khalil, M.T. & N.S.A. El Rahman. 1997. Abundance and diversity of surface zooplankton in the Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea, Egypt. Journal of Plankton Research 19(7), 927-936. [details] from synonym: Lesson, R.P. 1832. Zoologie. pp. 256-279, 433-440. In: Voyage autour du Monde sur la Corvette La Coquille pendant 1822-1825. Volume 2 (1). Paris: Pourret Frères. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Bruguière, J.G. (1789) Histoire Naturelle des Vers. In: Encyclopedie Methodique. Vol. 1. pp. 23-24, 26, 141-157, 178-188. Paris and Liège: Panckoucke. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Otto, A.W., 1823. Beschreibung einiger neuen Mollusken und Zoophyten. Nova Acta Leop. Carol. 11 : 273-314. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Van Soest, R.W.M. 1973a. The genus Thalia Blumenbach, 1798 (Tunicata, Thaliacea), with descriptions of two new species. Beaufortia 20 (271): 193-212. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Kott, P. (1998) Tunicata. pp.51-252, 259-261 (App. 1-3), 265-292 (Index) in Wells, A. & Houston, W.W.K. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol.34. Hemichordata, Tunicata, Cephalochordata. Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, Australia [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Desor, P.J.E. 1848. Salpa caboti sp.n. exhibited and described. Proceedings Boston Society of Natural History 3: 75-76. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Lahille, M.F. (1890) Recherches sur les Tuniciers des cotes de France. Toulouse, 330p. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Sewell, R.B.S. 1953. The pelagic Tunicata. Scientific Reports John Murray Expedition 1933-34. Volume 10 (1): 1-90. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Traustedt, M.P.A. 1885. Bidrag til kundskab om salperne. Videnskabelige Selskab Skrifter (naturvidenskabelige-mathematiske Afdelig) 2 (8): 334-400. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Blumenbach, J.F. 1798. Abbildungen naturhistorischer Gegenstände 30. Göttingen, Germany. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Metcalf, M.M. 1918a. The Salpidae collected by the United States Fisheries Steamer 'Albatross', in Philippine waters during the years 1908 and 1909. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 100 (2): 1-5. [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] | |||||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Forma Thalia democratica f. democratica (Forskål, 1775) Forma Thalia democratica f. indopacifica Van Soest, 1975 Forma Thalia democratica f. orientalis Tokioka, 1937 accepted as Thalia orientalis Tokioka, 1937 Forma Thalia democratica f. typica Sewell, 1953 accepted as Thalia democratica (Forskål, 1775) Subspecies Thalia democratica intermedia Borgelt, 1968 accepted as Thalia rhomboides (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) Subspecies Thalia democratica orientalis Tokioka, 1937 accepted as Thalia orientalis Tokioka, 1937 Variety Thalia democratica var. orientalis Tokioka, 1937 accepted as Thalia orientalis Tokioka, 1937 | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | 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] Gulf of Mexico [details] Jordan Basin [details] Kenya [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] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (22 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 0 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Chordata Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Diet: plankton feeder [details] Dimensions: 25 mm in size [details] Distribution: Cape Cod southward (rare north of Cape Cod) [details] Distribution: semi-cosmopolitan in temperate to tropical waters [details] Habitat: Epipelagic [details] Reproduction: hermaphroditic; eggs shed and fertilized in the water [details] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137279 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Madin, L. (2013). Thalia democratica (Forskål, 1775). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137279 on 2013-05-26 | ||||||||||||||
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