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Genus: Fritillaria

Life > Eukaryotes > Opisthokonta > Metazoa (animals) > Bilateria > Deuterostomia > Chordata > Tunicata > Larvacea > Family: Fritillariidae > Subfamily: Fritillariinae

A total of 26 species worldwide, with 18 species native to southern African seas.

Genera native to southern Africa

Information from World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), Lazarus & Dowler (1979) and other publications listed on the relevant taxon pages.

Fritillaria aberrans 

Circum-global.

 

Fritillaria abjornseni

Circum-global.

 

Fritillaria aequatorialis 

Widely distributed, including the Atlantic and Indian oceans.

 

Fritillaria arafoera

Indian Ocean, Indo-Pacific, Pacific Ocean, and Red Sea.

 

Fritillaria borealis

Circum-global. Recorded from the southwest coast of South Africa by Lazarus & Dowler (1979).

 

Fritillaria charybdae

Atlantic, Pacific, Mediterranean.

 

Fritillaria drygalskii

Antarctic, Atlantic and Mediterranean.

 

Fritillaria fagei

Indian Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea.

 

Fritillaria formica

Semi-cosmopolitan. Recorded from the southwest coast of South Africa by Lazarus & Dowler (1979). Recorded by Gibbons (1999) as being common in the zooplankton from the coastal Benguela Current region.

 

Fritillaria fraudax

Circum-global. Recorded from the southwest coast of South Africa by Lazarus & Dowler (1979).

 

Fritillaria gracilis

Circum-global.

 

Fritillaria haplostoma

Semi-cosmopolitan, including Atlantic and Indian oceans. Recorded from the southwest coast of South Africa by Lazarus & Dowler (1979).

 

Fritillaria megachile

Semi-cosmopolitan. Recorded from the southwest coast of South Africa by Lazarus & Dowler (1979). Recorded by Gibbons (1999) as being common in the zooplankton from the coastal Benguela Current region.

 

Fritillaria messanensis

Indian Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea.

 

Fritillaria pacifica

Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Indo-Pacific, Red Sea.

 

Fritillaria pellucida

Semi-cosmopolitan. Recorded from the southwest coast of South Africa by Lazarus & Dowler (1979). Recorded by Gibbons (1999) as being common in the zooplankton from the coastal Benguela Current region.

 

Fritillaria tenella

Semi-cosmopolitan, including Atlantic and Indian oceans.

 

Fritillaria venusta

Semi-cosmopolitan, including Atlantic and Indian oceans. Recorded from the southwest coast of South Africa, under the name Fritillaria bicornis, by Lazarus & Dowler (1979).

 

Publications

  • Gibbons MJ. 1999. An introduction to the zooplankton of the Benguela Current region. National Book Publishers, Cape Town.
  • Lazarus, B. I. and D. Dowler. 1979. Pelagic tunicata off the west and south-west coasts of South Africa, 1964-1965. Fish. Bull. S. Afr. 12:93-119.

Text by Hamish Robertson