Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Tunicata > Class Thaliacea > Order Salpida

Salpidae Lahille, 1888

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Cyclosalpinae Yount, 1954
Salpinae Lahille, 1888

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: サルパ科

Literature

original description	Lahille, M. F. (1888). Étude systématique des tuniciers. Compt. Rendus Assoc. France Adv. Sci. 16 (2): 667-677.
basis of record	Kott, P. (1998). Tunicata. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. 34: pp.51-252, 259-261 (App. 1-3), 265-292 (Index).
additional source	Hereu, C.M.; Suárez-Morales, E. (2012). Checklist of the salps (Tunicata, Thaliacea) from the Western Caribbean Sea with a key for their identification and comments on other North Atlantic salps. Zootaxa. 3210: 50-60.
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
additional source	Van Soest, R.W.M. (1975). Zoogeography and speciation in the Salpidae (Tunicata, Thaliacea). Beaufortia. 23: 307-381.