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 Ecología

Pelágico; rango de profundidad 0 - 150 m (Ref. 2376).  Temperate

Distribución Países | Áreas FAO | Ecosistemas | Ocurrencias, apariciones | Introducciones

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 / Tamaño / Peso / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 12.0 cm TL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 1610)

Biología     Glosario (por ej. 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 Madurez | Reproducción | Puesta | Huevos | Fecundidad | Larva

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 Referencias | Coordinador | Colaboradores

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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Mass conversion
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Fuentes de Internet

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(Publication : search) | Fishipedia | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Árbol de la vida | Wikipedia (Go, búsqueda) | Expediente Zoológico

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.