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Cyclosalpa sewelli

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

Distribution and habitat

Indo-Pacific. Recorded off the east coast of southern Africa by van Soest (1974).

Publications

  • Sutherland KR and Madin LP. 2010. A comparison of filtration rates among pelagic tunicates using kinematic measurements. Marine Biology 157: 755-764. DOI 10.1007/s00227-009-1359-y
  • 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