Species Pyura australis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ascidia australis 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. [614].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) MNHP S2 PYU67, King George Sound, Albany, WA; MNHP S2 PYU68, King George Sound, Albany, WA; MNHP S2 PYU260, King George Sound, Albany, WA; MNHP S2 PYU261, King George Sound, Albany, WA; MNHP S2 PYU263, King George Sound, Albany, WA; MNHP S2 PYU264, King George Sound, Albany, WA.
• Pyura australis parvispinatus Kott, P. 1952. Ascidians of Australia. 1. Stolidobranchiata and Phlebobranchiata. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 3(3): 206-333 [268] [as Pyura australis var. parvispinatus].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM 1836, Rottnest Is., WA.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

One record from Lizard Is., QLD.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Lower E coast
  • South Australia: Great Australian Bight, S Gulfs
  • Tasmania: Bass Strait, Tas. coast
  • Victoria: Bass Strait
  • Western Australia: Great Australian Bight, Lower W coast, SW coast

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Subtidal waters–20 m.

 

General References

Kott, P. 1985. The Australian Ascidiacea Pt 1, Phlebobranchia and Stolidobranchia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 23: 1-440 [291]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
14-Dec-2012		14-Dec-2012	MODIFIED
05-Sep-2012		05-Sep-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)