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• Ascidia aurora Quoy, J.R.C. & Gaimard, J.P. 1834. Zoologie, Mollusques pp. 559–626. in, Voyages de découvertes de l'Astrolabe 1826–1829, Vol. 3. Paris : Pilet Ainé. [605] [described as 'aurore un peu foncé avec des bandes verticales violettes se portant sur les tubes'; it may be a specimen of Pyura robusta Hartmeyer, 1922, which has radial tracts of overlapping iridescent spines from the siphons down the sides of the body and which on one occasion has been described as brick red with black oral siphons (see Kott, P. 1985. The Australian Ascidiacea Pt 1, Phlebobranchia and Stolidobranchia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 23: 1–440); at this stage, more living specimens need to be observed to confirm its identity].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown, Western Port, VIC.

  Secondary source:

   Kott, P. 1985. The Australian Ascidiacea Pt 1, Phlebobranchia and Stolidobranchia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 23: 1-440.
• Ascidia reticulata Quoy, J.R.C. & Gaimard, J.P. 1834. Zoologie, Mollusques pp. 559–626. in, Voyages de découvertes de l'Astrolabe 1826–1829, Vol. 3. Paris : Pilet Ainé. [606] [neither the species nor the genus is evident from the original description].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown, King Georges Sound, WA.
• Ascidia succida Stimpson, W. 1855. Tunicata in descriptions of some new marine invertebrates. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 7: 387-388 [388] [unrecognisable from the original description].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown, Port Jackson, NSW.
• Ascidia tumulus Quoy, J.R.C. & Gaimard, J.P. 1834. Zoologie, Mollusques pp. 559–626. in, Voyages de découvertes de l'Astrolabe 1826–1829, Vol. 3. Paris : Pilet Ainé. [607] [this is the designated type species of Syphonotethis, a senior synonym of Molgula suppressed in favour of the latter name; Pizon, A. 1898. Etude anatomique et systématique des molgulidées appartenant aux collections du Muséum de Paris. Annales des Sciences Naturelles 8 7: 305–381 redescribed the type specimen of Ascidia tumulus which may be the senior synonym of Molgula ficus (Macdonald, 1859)].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP, Western Port, VIC and Jervis Bay, NSW.

  Secondary source:

   Pizon, A. 1898. Etude anatomique et systématique des molgulidées appartenant aux collections du Muséum de Paris. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Paris 8 7: 305-381.
• Ascidia cylindracea Herdman, W.A. 1880. Preliminary report on the Tunicata of the Challenger expedition. Part 2. Ascidiidae. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 10: 714-726 [714] [Kott, P. 1985. The Australian Ascidiacea Pt 1, Phlebobranchia and Stolidobranchia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 23: 1–440 (30) thought that this may be synonymous with A. capillata Sluiter, 1887, but the type locality is outside the usual range of A. capillata].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown, off Twofold Bay, NSW.

  Secondary source:

   Kott, P. 1985. The Australian Ascidiacea Pt 1, Phlebobranchia and Stolidobranchia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 23: 1-440.

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