Nomenclature
original description
Van Beneden, E.; de Selys Longchamps, M. (1913). Zoologie: Tuniciers, Caducichordata (Ascidiacés et Thaliacés). <em>Résultats du Voyage du S.Y. Belgica en 1897-1898-1899 sous le commandement de A. de Gerlache de Gomery: Rapports Scientifiques (1901-1913).</em> Buschmann: Anvers. 122 pp, XVII plates. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record
Van Soest, R.W.M. (1974). A revision of the genera <i>Salpa</i> Forskål, 1775, <I>Pegea</i> Savigny, 1816, and <i>Ritteriella</i> Metcalf, 1919 (Tunicata, Thaliacea). <em>Beaufortia.</em> 22 (293): 153-191. [details] Available for editors
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Other
context source (RAS)
Australian Antarctic Data Centre. , available online at https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/biodiversity/ [details]
additional source
Foxton, P. 1961. Salpa fusiformis Cuvier and related species. Discovery Reports 32: 1-32 [details] Available for editors
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additional source
Foxton, P. (1967). The distribution and life history of Salpa fusiformis Foxton, with observations on a related species Salpa gerlachei Foxton. <em>Discovery Reports.</em> 34: 1-116 [for 1966]. [details] Available for editors
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additional source
van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details]
From editor or global species database
Taxonomy Previous authors assigned this species to Foxton, 1971, but varieties erected before 1961 are available at the (sub-)specific level. This means that the variety described by Van Beneden & De Selys Longchamps, 1913 takes authorship for the name gerlachei. [details]