Deep-Sea name details
Weelia cylindrica (Cuvier, 1804)
137283 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137283)
unaccepted (genus transfer)
Species
Weelia Yount, 1954 accepted as Iasis Savigny, 1816
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Salpa cylindrica Cuvier, 1804) Cuvier, G. 1804. Mémoire sur les Thalides (Thalia Browne) et sur les Biphores (Salpa Forskål). Annales du Muséum National d'Historie Naturelle Paris 4: 360-382. [details] 
Garic, R.; van Soest, R.W.M. (2026). World List of Thaliacea. Weelia cylindrica (Cuvier, 1804). Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://marinespecies.org/Deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137283 on 2026-08-05
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Weelia cylindrica (Cuvier, 1804). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/DeepSea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137283 on 2026-08-05
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(of Salpa cylindrica Cuvier, 1804) Cuvier, G. 1804. Mémoire sur les Thalides (Thalia Browne) et sur les Biphores (Salpa Forskål). Annales du Muséum National d'Historie Naturelle Paris 4: 360-382. [details]
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
context source (Bermuda) van Soest, R.W.M. (1975). Thaliacea of the Bermuda area. <em>Bull. Zool. Mus. Univ. Amsterdam.</em> 5(2): 8-12. [details] Available for editors
context source (PeRMS) Ayón, P., M.I. Criales-Hernández, R. Schwamborn & H.J. Hirche. (2008). Zooplankton research off Peru: A review. <em>Progress in Oceanography.</em> 79(2-4):238-255., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2008.10.020 [details] Available for editors
additional source van der Land, J.; van Soest, R.W.M. (2001). Thaliacea, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>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,</i> 50: pp. 355-356 (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Cole, L. and G. Lambert. 2009. Tunicata (Urochordata) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1209–1216 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
additional source van Soest, R.W.M. (1975). Observations on taxonomy and distribution of some salps (Tunicata, Thaliacea), with descriptions of three new species. <em>Beaufortia.</em> 23(302): 105-130. [details] Available for editors
additional source Ishak, N. H. B. A.; Adam, N.B.; Kassim, Z. (2018). A taxonomic revision of the genus <i>Thalia</i> Blumenbach, 1798; <i>Weelia</i> Yount, 1954; <i>Brooksia</i> Metcalf, 1918 (Salpida: Salpidae) from East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4422(4): 451-477., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4422.4.1
page(s): 459 [details] Available for editors
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
context source (Bermuda) van Soest, R.W.M. (1975). Thaliacea of the Bermuda area. <em>Bull. Zool. Mus. Univ. Amsterdam.</em> 5(2): 8-12. [details] Available for editors
context source (PeRMS) Ayón, P., M.I. Criales-Hernández, R. Schwamborn & H.J. Hirche. (2008). Zooplankton research off Peru: A review. <em>Progress in Oceanography.</em> 79(2-4):238-255., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2008.10.020 [details] Available for editors
additional source van der Land, J.; van Soest, R.W.M. (2001). Thaliacea, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>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,</i> 50: pp. 355-356 (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Cole, L. and G. Lambert. 2009. Tunicata (Urochordata) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1209–1216 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
additional source van Soest, R.W.M. (1975). Observations on taxonomy and distribution of some salps (Tunicata, Thaliacea), with descriptions of three new species. <em>Beaufortia.</em> 23(302): 105-130. [details] Available for editors
additional source Ishak, N. H. B. A.; Adam, N.B.; Kassim, Z. (2018). A taxonomic revision of the genus <i>Thalia</i> Blumenbach, 1798; <i>Weelia</i> Yount, 1954; <i>Brooksia</i> Metcalf, 1918 (Salpida: Salpidae) from East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4422(4): 451-477., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4422.4.1
page(s): 459 [details] Available for editors
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | ツツサルパ | [details] |
