Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Tunicata > Class Thaliacea > Order Salpida > Family Salpidae > Subfamily Salpinae > Genus Salpa

Salpa maxima Forskål, 1775

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Salpa*	Forskål, 1775	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: Giant salp sources: Volvenko, I. V.; Orlov, A. M.; Gebruk, A. V.; Katugin, O. N.; Ogorodnikova, A. A.; Vinogradov, G. M.; Maznikova, O. A. (2019). Checklist of the trawl macrofauna from the North Pacific and adjacent seas with information about fishery importance, potential product yield, and price range, supplement to: Volvenko, Igor V; Orlov, Alexei M; Gebruk, Andrey V; Katugin, Oleg N; Ogorodnikova, Alla A; Vinogradov, Georgy M; Maznikova, Olga A (in prep.): Trawl macrofauna of the Far-Eastern Seas and North Pacific: proportion of commercial species, potential product yield, and price rang. Earth System Science Data. PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science.

Japanese: オオトガリサルパ sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Russian: Сальпа большая

Literature

original description	Forskål P. (1775). Descriptiones Animalium, Avium, Amphibiorum, Piscium, Insectorum, Vermium; quae in Itinere Orientali Observavit Petrus Forskål. Post Mortem Auctoris editit Carsten Niebuhr. Adjuncta est materia Medica Kahirina. Mölleri, Hafniae, 19 + xxxiv + 164 pp.
basis of record	Van Soest, R.W.M. (1974). A revision of the genera Salpa Forskål, 1775, Pegea Savigny, 1816, and Ritteriella Metcalf, 1919 (Tunicata, Thaliacea). Beaufortia. 22 (293): 153-191.
additional source	Kott, P.; Bradford-Grieve, J.; Esnal, G.; Murdoch, R.C. (2009). Phylum Tunicata: sea squirts, salps, appendicularians, in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 409-430.
additional source	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
additional source	van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO).
additional source	Godeaux, J. (1960). Contributions to the knowledge of the Red Sea: 29. Tuniciers pélagiques du Golfe d'Eylath. Bull. Sea Fish. Res. Stat. Haifa 18: 9-15.
additional source	Badreddine, A.; Fatfat, S.; Aguilar, R. (2025). Unveiling Hidden Drifters: New Records of Colonial Pelagic Tunicates in Lebanese Waters and the Levantine Sea. ISRG Journal of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences. II (I): 34-39.
additional source	van der Land, J.; van Soest, R.W.M. (2001). Thaliacea, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 355-356

Genbank

Citation

Garic, R.; Madin, L.; van Soest, R.W.M. (2025). World List of Thaliacea. Salpa maxima Forskål, 1775. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137273