Thetys vagina   Tilesius, 1802

Virgin salpa

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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

| Salpida | Salpidae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecologia

Pelagico; distribuzione batimetrica 0 - 150 m (Ref. 2376).  Temperate

Distribuzione Stati | Aree FAO | Ecosystems | Presenze | Introduzioni

Indo-Pacific, Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean: from New Zealand to Japan, East Pacific Ocean from California to Bering Sea. Tropical to temperate.

Length at first maturity / Size / Peso / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 12.0 cm TL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 1610)

Biologia     Glossario (es. epibenthic)

Marine, planktonic; tolerates colder waters than most salps (Refs. 1134, 126266). Associated with an attached phyllosomata of the western rock lobster Panulirus cygnus, which was found to consume its host's tissue, exhibiting opportunistic feeding (Ref. 108806).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturità | Riproduzione | Deposizione | Uova | Fecundity | Larve

Members of the order Salpida includes clonal and sexual phases in its life cycle. Life cycle: The oozooid holds in its stolon the buds and blastozooids, each containing an egg. The blastozooid becomes a brood sac for the fertilized egg which later breaks free as a young zooid.

Main reference Bibliografia | Coordinatore | Collaboratori

Kott, P. 2005. (Ref. 1134)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Not Evaluated 

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Human uses


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Strumenti

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Informazioni ulteriori

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Ecosystems
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Introduzioni
Stocks
Ecologia
Dieta
Prede
Nomi Comuni
Sinonimi
Predatori
Riproduzione
Maturità
Deposizione
Fecundity
Uova
Egg development
Age/Size
Accrescimento
Length-weight
Length-length
Morfologia
Larve
Abbondanza
Bibliografia
Mass conversion
Collaboratori
Immagini

Fonti Internet

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(Publication : search) | Fishipedia | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Tree of Life | Wikipedia (Go, ricerca) | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 7.3 - 24.7, mean 14.8 (based on 2418 cells).
Vulnerability (Ref. 71543): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Unknown.