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

Thetys vagina Tilesius, 1802

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Salpa Forskål, 1775

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Thetys*	Tilesius, 1802	accepted genus name
*Tetys*		orthographic variant

Species group names

*Tetys costata*		orthographic variant
*Tetys tilesii*		orthographic variant

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: schedesalp sources: DORIS: Données d'Observations pour la Reconnaissance et l'Identification de la faune et de la flore Subaquatiques.

English: thetys salp; Vagina salp sources: DORIS: Données d'Observations pour la Reconnaissance et l'Identification de la faune et de la flore Subaquatiques.;Volvenko, I. V.; Orlov, A. M.; Gebruk, A. V.; Katugin, O. N.; Ogorodnikova, A. A.; Vinogradov, G. M.; Maznikova, O. A. (2019). Checklist of the trawl macrofauna from the North Pacific and adjacent seas with information about fishery importance, potential product yield, and price range, supplement to: Volvenko, Igor V; Orlov, Alexei M; Gebruk, Andrey V; Katugin, Oleg N; Ogorodnikova, Alla A; Vinogradov, Georgy M; Maznikova, Olga A (in prep.): Trawl macrofauna of the Far-Eastern Seas and North Pacific: proportion of commercial species, potential product yield, and price rang. Earth System Science Data. PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science.

Italian: salpa maggiore sources: DORIS: Données d'Observations pour la Reconnaissance et l'Identification de la faune et de la flore Subaquatiques.

Japanese: オオサルパ sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Russian: Тетис вагина

Literature

original description	Tilesius, W.G. (1802). Abbildung und Beschreibung eines sonderbaren Seeubeutels oder einer neuen Thetys-Species aus dem Atlantischen Ozean, Thetys vagina. Jahrbuch Naturgesellschaft Leipzig. 1: 150-165.
additional source	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO).
additional source	Pollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp.
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	Kott, P.; Bradford-Grieve, J.; Esnal, G.; Murdoch, R.C. (2009). Phylum Tunicata: sea squirts, salps, appendicularians, in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 409-430.
additional source	Okutani, T. ; Osuga, K. (1986). A Peculiar Nesting Behavior of Ocythoe tuberculata in the Test of a Gigantic Salp, Tethys vagina. VENUS (The Japanese Journals of Malacology).* 45(1): 67-69.

Genbank

Citation

Garic, R.; Madin, L.; van Soest, R.W.M. (2025). World List of Thaliacea. Thetys vagina Tilesius, 1802. 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:137281