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

Salpa Forskål, 1775

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Salpa aspera Chamisso, 1819
Salpa fusiformis Cuvier, 1804
Salpa maxima Forskål, 1775
Salpa younti van Soest, 1973

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: トガリサルパ属

Literature

original description	Forskål P. (1775). Descriptiones Animalium, Avium, Amphibiorum, Piscium, Insectorum, Vermium; quae in Itinere Orientali Observavit Petrus Forskål. Post Mortem Auctoris editit Carsten Niebuhr. Adjuncta est materia Medica Kahirina. Mölleri, Hafniae, 19 + xxxiv + 164 pp.
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	Melville, R.V. (1969). Salpa Forskal, 1775 (Tunicata): Validated under the Plenary Powers with designation of a type species for Thalia Blumenbach, 1798. The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 26 (3):136-138.
additional source	Foxton, P. 1961. Salpa fusiformis Cuvier and related species. Discovery Reports 32: 1-32
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	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp.
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.

Genbank

Citation

Garic, R.; Madin, L.; van Soest, R.W.M. (2025). World List of Thaliacea. Salpa Forskål, 1775. 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:137233