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Cyclosalpa bakeri

Life > Eukaryotes > Opisthokonta > Metazoa (animals) > Bilateria > Deuterostomia > Chordata > Tunicata > Thaliacea > Salpida > Family: Salpidae > Genus: Cyclosalpa

Distribution and habitat

Widely distributed in all three oceans from at least 45°N to 40°S (van Soest 1974).

Publications

  • Madin LP, Purcell JE, Miller CB. 1997. Abundance and grazing effects of Cyclosalpa bakeri in the subarctic Pacific. Marine Ecology Progress Series 157: 175-183.
  • van Soest RWM. 1974. Taxonomy of the subfamily Cyclosalpinae Yount, 1954 (Tunicata, Thaliacea), with descriptions of two new species. Beaufortia 22(288): 17-55.

Text by Hamish Robertson