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

Salpa fusiformis Cuvier, 1804

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Salpa*	Forskål, 1775	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Danish: den enlige salpe sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

English: common salp sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

Swedish: marsiansalp

Literature

original description	Cuvier, G. 1804. Mémoire sur les Thalides (Thalia Browne) et sur les Biphores (Salpa Forskål). Annales du Muséum National d'Historie Naturelle Paris 4: 360-382.
basis of record	Van Soest, R.W.M. 1974b. A revision of the genera Salpa Forskål, 1775, Pegea Savigny, 1816, and Ritteriella Metcalf, 1919 (Tunicata, Thaliacea). Beaufortia 22 (293): 153-191.
additional source	Foxton, P. 1961. Salpa fusiformis Cuvier and related species. Discovery Reports 32: 1-32
additional source	UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms
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.
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	Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p.
additional source	ITIS database
additional source	Meinkoth, N.A. 1981. Field guide to North American seashore creatures. The Audubon Society. Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 799 p.
additional source	Miner, R. W. 1950. Field book of seashore life. G.P. Putnam & Sons. New York. 888 p.
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	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.
additional source	Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013].

Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

Biodiversity Heritage Library (142 publications)
USNM Invertebrate Zoology Chordata Collection
GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
GBIF

Citation

Madin, L. (2014). Salpa fusiformis Cuvier, 1804. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137272