Salpida

By Graciela B. Esnal and María C. Daponte

This chapter covers 29 of the 45 currently recognised species of salps which have been recorded from the South Atlantic Ocean.

Contents
Sa.1 Introduction
Sa.2 Geographic and vertical distribution
Sa.3 Taxonomy
Sa.4 General morphology
Sa.5 Suggested reading

Identification
There is no key available; identification must be carried out by comparing diagnoses of subfamilies, genera and species.
On the pages Family Salpidae to Genus Ihlea (in the Higher Taxa module), the necessary information can be found to identify all the taxa so far recorded from the South Atlantic Ocean.

Species
See he page for Order Salpida (and following pages) in the Higher taxa module. A species list can also be found on that page.

For the species, see Cyclosalpa pinnata to Ihlea magalhanica in the Species module (29 pages).