Genus: Fritillaria
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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. |
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Fritillaria abjornseni
Circum-global. |
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Fritillaria aequatorialis
Widely distributed, including the Atlantic and Indian oceans. |
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Fritillaria arafoera Indian Ocean,
Indo-Pacific, Pacific Ocean, and Red Sea. |
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Fritillaria borealis
Circum-global. Recorded from the southwest coast of South Africa by Lazarus
& Dowler (1979). |
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Fritillaria charybdae Atlantic,
Pacific, Mediterranean. |
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Fritillaria drygalskii Antarctic,
Atlantic and Mediterranean. |
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Fritillaria fagei Indian Ocean,
Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea. |
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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. |
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Fritillaria fraudax Circum-global.
Recorded from the southwest coast of South Africa by Lazarus & Dowler
(1979). |
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Fritillaria gracilis
Circum-global. |
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Fritillaria haplostoma
Semi-cosmopolitan, including Atlantic and Indian oceans. Recorded from the
southwest coast of South Africa by Lazarus & Dowler (1979). |
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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. |
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Fritillaria messanensis Indian
Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea. |
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Fritillaria pacifica Indian Ocean,
Pacific Ocean, Indo-Pacific, Red Sea. |
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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. |
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Fritillaria tenella
Semi-cosmopolitan, including Atlantic and Indian oceans. |
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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). |
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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 |