Genus: Pegea
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Three species worldwide, two of which have wide
pelagic distributions that include southern
African seas.
Species native to southern Africa
Information from
World
Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), unless otherwise indicated.
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Pegea bicaudata
Apparently rare, but nevertheless has a broad distribution covering all
oceans. There are confirmed records from the seas off both the west and east
coasts of southern Africa (van Soest 1974). |
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Pegea confoederata
A widespread, common, species occurring from 50°N to 45°S in all oceans (van
Soest 1974). Recorded from the southwest coast of South Africa by Lazarus &
Dowler (1979). Recorded from the Benguela Current region by Gibbons (1999). |
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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.
- van Soest RWM. 1974. A revision of the genera Salpa
Forskål, 1775, Pegea Savigny, 1816, and Ritteriella
Metcalf, 1919 (Tunicata, Thaliacea). Beaufortia 22(293):
153-191.
Text by Hamish Robertson |
