Que son salpas ?
I received an article in spanish about 'salpas', an organism that lives in the ocean, consuming phytoplankton, and thus eliminating carbon, which is a process in nature that helps eliminate global warming...
I would like to know what 'salpas' are...
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For whom it may concern, I had a close encounter with hundreds of this creatures in the mediterranean sea on the Moroccan shore (near Ceuta). I was swimming with them all around, and yes they are innofensive and very beautiful.
salpa.
(Del lat. salpa).
f. Pez marino teleósteo, del suborden de los Acantopterigios, muy semejante a la boga marina, de unos 25 cm de largo, cabeza apuntada, cuerpo comprimido, grandes escamas, y color verdoso por el lomo, plateado en los costados y vientre, y con once rayas doradas en cada lado, desde las agallas hasta la cola.
f. Animal procordado, de la clase de los Tunicados, de cuerpo transparente y en forma de tonel, con seis u ocho cintas musculares transversales, visibles a través de la túnica, cuyas contracciones rítmicas sirven para la locomoción del animal.
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salpa [?sælp?]
n pl -pas, -pae [-pi?]
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any of various minute floating animals of the genus Salpa, of warm oceans, having a transparent barrel-shaped body with openings at either end: class Thaliacea, subphylum Tunicata (tunicates)
[from New Latin, from Latin: variety of stockfish, from Greek salp?]
salpiform [?sælp??f??m] adj
Hi Consejero,
Welcome to the forum. "Salpas" in English are "salps" (or one is a salp) 
They are a kind of tunicate, which is a very primitive vertebrate.
A lot of people would confuse them with jellyfish but they are a lot more complicated than jellyfish, actually.
(By the way, I´m a biologist and I hadn´t heard of them before. Thanks for the question!)
Hola,
En inglés creo que es "salp".
