Pegea confoederata

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Distribution and habitat

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).

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.
• Raghukumar S, Raghukumar C. 1999. Thraustochytrid fungoid protists in faecal pellets of the tunicate Pegea confoederata, their tolerance to deep-sea conditions and implication in degradation processes. Marine Ecology Progress Series 190: 133-140.
• 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
• Sutherland KR and Madin LP. 2010. Comparative jet wake structure and swimming performance of salps. Journal of Experimental Biology 213: 2967-2975. doi:10.1242/jeb.041962
• Sutherland KR and Madin LP, Stocker R. 2010. Filtration of submicrometer particles by pelagic tunicates. PNAS 107(34): 15129-15134. www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1003599107
• 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