Species Inquirenda
- Didemnum rottnesti Kott, P. 1962. The ascidians of Australia III. Aplousobranchiata Lahille: Didemnidae Giard. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 13(3): 265-334 [322] [species description unsatisfactory and requires revision; holotype and paratype from Rottnest Is. (WA) and Maria Is. (Tasmania) suggest anomalies but the specimens have not been reexamined].
Type data:
Holotype AM Y1515, Mary Cove, Rottnest Is., WA.
Paratype(s) AM Y1523. - Leptoclinum fimbriatum Herdman, W.A. 1898. Note on the Tunicata fauna of Australian seas. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7(1): 443-450 [448] [also in Herdman, W.A. 1899. Descriptive catalogue of the Tunicata in the Australian Museum. Australian Museum, Sydney, Catalogue 17: 1–139 (91)].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Port Jackson, NSW.Secondary source:
Herdman, W.A. 1899. Descriptive catalogue of the Tunicata in the Australian Museum. Australian Museum, Sydney, Catalogue 17: 1-139. - Polysyncraton victoriense Kott, P. 1976. Ascidian fauna of Western Port Bay, Victoria and a comparison with that of Port Phillip Bay. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 37: 53-96 [73] [the species is inadequately described and requires revision; the holotype has not been reexamined].
Type data:
Holotype NMV H171, on Ecklonia holdfasts, 8 m, Crawfish Rock, Westernport, VIC. - Trididemnum spiculatum Kott, P. 1962. The ascidians of Australia III. Aplousobranchiata Lahille: Didemnidae Giard. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 13(3): 265-334 [322] [although the holotype and the paratypes AM Y1628, Y 1630-2 are from Rottnest Is. (WA), other paratypes (AM Y1619 and Y1624) are from Tasmania; another paratype (AM Y1627) from Heron Is. has been found to be conspecific with Trididemnum paracyclops Kott (1980); the species is ill-defined and requires revision].
Type data:
Holotype AM Y1626, Thompson's Bay, Rottnest Is., WA.
Paratype(s) AM Y1619, Y1624, Y1628, Y1630-2. - Amaroucium rotundatum Herdman, W.A. 1899. Descriptive catalogue of the Tunicata in the Australian Museum. Australian Museum, Sydney, Catalogue 17: 1-139 [71] [name first listed by Herdman, W.A. 1898. Note on the Tunicata fauna of Australian seas. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7(1): 443–450 (448), nom. nud.; probably a colony of Polycitor giganteum (Herdman, 1899), its zooids having a long abdomen with gonads in the gut loop; the holotype has not been re-examined].
Type data:
Holotype AM U112, G2104, Port Jackson, NSW.Secondary source:
Herdman, W.A. 1898. Note on the Tunicata fauna of Australian seas. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7(1): 443-450. - Atopogaster aurantiaca Herdman, W.A. 1886. Report on the Tunicata collected during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–1876. Pt II, Ascidiae compositae. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 14(38): 1-425 [168] [may be a Polycitor species, although on the basis of the original description, the zooids with many rows of stigmata and gonads spilling over from the abdomen to a posterior abdomen, cannot be assigned to any known genus or species; the holotype has not been re-examined].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH, Bass Strait, VIC. - Polyclinum clava Herdman, W.A. 1899. Descriptive catalogue of the Tunicata in the Australian Museum. Australian Museum, Sydney, Catalogue 17: 1-139 [77] [name first listed by Herdman, W.A. 1898. Note on the Tunicata fauna of Australian seas. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7(1): 443–450 (448), nom. nud.; probably a colony of Polycitor giganteum (Herdman, 1899)].
Type data:
Holotype AM U154, Port Jackson, NSW.Secondary source:
Herdman, W.A. 1898. Note on the Tunicata fauna of Australian seas. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7(1): 443-450. - Polyclinum complanatum Herdman, W.A. 1899. Descriptive catalogue of the Tunicata in the Australian Museum. Australian Museum, Sydney, Catalogue 17: 1-139 [81] [name first listed by Herdman, W.A. 1898. Note on the Tunicata fauna of Australian seas. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7(1): 443–450 (448), nom. nud.; has as its junior synonym, Polyclinum depressum Herdman, 1899 (loc. cit., figs Pcl. 1, 9–12), and may be a specimen of a Pseudodistoma species].
Type data:
Holotype whereabouts unknown, Port Jackson, NSW.Secondary source:
Herdman, W.A. 1898. Note on the Tunicata fauna of Australian seas. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7(1): 443-450. - Polyclinum fuscum Herdman, W.A. 1899. Descriptive catalogue of the Tunicata in the Australian Museum. Australian Museum, Sydney, Catalogue 17: 1-139 [82] [name first listed by Herdman, W.A. 1898. Note on the Tunicata fauna of Australian seas. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7(1): 443–450 (448), nom. nud.; appears to be a specimen of Polycitor giganteum (Herdman, 1899); holotype has not been re-examined].
Type data:
Holotype AM U156, G2101, Port Jackson, NSW.Secondary source:
Herdman, W.A. 1898. Note on the Tunicata fauna of Australian seas. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7(1): 443-450.
History of changes
Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 14-Dec-2012 | 14-Dec-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |