
Salpinae
A salp (plural salps, also known colloquially as “sea grape”) or salpa (plural salpae or salpas) is a barrel-shaped, planktonic tunicate in the family Salpidae. It moves by contracting, thereby pumping water through its gelatinous body; it is one of the most efficient examples of jet propulsion in the animal kingdom. The salp strains the pumped water through its internal feeding filters, feeding on phytoplankton.
11 branches of this subfamily, most-observed first · about 31 known species

Typical Salps
genusSalpa

Thetys
genusThetys

Thalia
genusThalia

Pegea
genusPegea

Soestia
genusSoestia

Iasis
genusIasis

Traustedtia
genusTraustedtia

Brooksia
genusBrooksia
Metcalfina
genusMetcalfina

Ihlea
genusIhlea
Ritteriella
genusRitteriella
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 798123.