Genus: Pelagopleura
Life > Eukaryotes > Opisthokonta > Metazoa
(animals) >
Bilateria > Deuterostomia >
Chordata > Tunicata >
Larvacea > Family:
Oikopleuridae > Subfamily: Oikopleurinae > Tribe: Alabiata
Five species worldwide, with four that have broad distributions that include southern African seas.
Species native to southern Africa
Information from
World
Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), Lazarus & Dowler (1979) and
other publications listed on the
relevant taxon pages.
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Pelagopleura australis
Antarctic Ocean and Southern Ocean. Included in Marine Species
Identification Portal: Zooplankton of the South Atlantic Ocean website. |
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Pelagopleura magna Antarctic
Ocean and Southern Ocean. Included in Marine Species Identification Portal:
Zooplankton of the South Atlantic Ocean website. |
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Pelagopleura oppressa Atlantic
Ocean. Included in Marine Species Identification Portal: Zooplankton of the
South Atlantic Ocean website. |
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Pelagopleura verticalis
Circum-global. |
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Publications
- 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.
Text by Hamish Robertson |
