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

Pegea Savigny, 1816

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Salpa Forskål, 1775

Children

Pegea bicaudata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1826)
Pegea confoederata (Forskål, 1775)
Pegea socia (Bosc, 1802)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: モモイロサルパ属

Literature

original description	Savigny, J. C. (1816). Recherches anatomiques sur les ascidies composées et sur les ascidies simples - Système de la classe des Ascidies. In: Mémoires sur les Animaux sans Vertèbres 2. Paris: G. Dufour. 1-229.
basis of record	Madin, L.P.; Harbison, G.R. 1978. Salps of the genus Pegea Savigny 1816 (Tunicata: Thaliacea). Bulletin of Marine Science 28 (2): 335-344.
additional 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.
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

Genbank

Citation

Garic, R.; Madin, L.; van Soest, R.W.M. (2025). World List of Thaliacea. Pegea Savigny, 1816. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137231