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41 species with fin ray counts including ? spines in dorsal and ? in anal fins (see list below)
Scientific Name
English Name
Distribution
Max. Length (cm)
Brooksia berneri
Indo-West Pacific. Weste
Brooksia rostrata
Indo-Pacific and Western
Cyclosalpa affinis
North Atlantic, the Medit
6 TL
Cyclosalpa bakeri
Indo-Pacific, Western Cen
Cyclosalpa floridana
Northern Atlantic and Ind
Cyclosalpa foxtoni
Questionable in Britain.
Cyclosalpa pinnata
Indo-Pacific, Atlantic Oc
6.5 TL
Cyclosalpa polae
Indo-Pacific, Atlantic Oc
4 TL
Cyclosalpa quadriluminis
Pacific Ocean
Cyclosalpa sewelli
Indo-Pacific
Cyclosalpa strongylenteron
Eastern Central Pacific
Helicosalpa komaii
Northwest Pacific
Helicosalpa virgula
Cosmopolitan. Tropical t
3.5 TL
Helicosalpa younti
Southeast Pacific
Iasis cylindrica
Northwest Atlantic, Antar
Ihlea magalhanica
Southwest Atlantic and In
Ihlea punctata
Atlantic, Indo-Pacific, a
2.3 TL
Ihlea racovitzai
Antarctic Atlantic
Metcalfina hexagona
Indo-Pacific.
Pegea bicaudata
Atlantic, Indo-Pacific, a
8 TL
Pegea confoederata
Atlantic, the Mediterrane
12 TL
Ritteriella amboinensis
Northeast Atlantic and In
Ritteriella picteti
Northeast Atlantic
Ritteriella retracta
Northern Atlantic, Pacifi
Salpa aspera
Eastern Pacific and Atlan
Salpa fusiformis
Common salp
Circumglobal.
5.2 TL
Salpa gerlachei
Antarctic Pacific.
Salpa maxima
Northern Atlantic, the Me
10 TL
Salpa thompsoni
Southern Hemisphere.
4.2 TL
Salpa younti
Atlantic Ocean
Soestia zonaria
Atlantic, the Mediterrane
Thalia cicar
Indo-Pacific, Atlantic Oc
Thalia democratica
Salp
Atlantic, the Mediterrane
1.8 TL
Thalia longicauda
Indo-West Pacific and Atl
Thalia orientalis
Indo-Pacific, Atlantic an
0.5 TL
Thalia rhinoceros
Western Central Pacific
Thalia rhomboides
Indo-Pacific.
Thalia sibogae
Western Central Pacific
Thetys vagina
Virgin salpa
Indo-Pacific, Atlantic Oc
12 TL
Traustedtia multitentaculata
Indo-Pacific and Atlantic
Weelia cylindrica
Indo-Pacific and Atlantic