Species Ascidia scaevola (Sluiter, 1904)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Styelopsis scaevola Sluiter, C.P. 1904. Die Tunicaten der Siboga-Expedition. Pt. I, Die socialen und holosomen Ascidien. Siboga-Expéditie Report 56A: 1-126 [89].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMA TU1066, 32 m, Indonesia [1°42'30"S 130°47'30"E].
• Ascidia aclara Kott, P. 1952. Ascidians of Australia. 1. Stolidobranchiata and Phlebobranchiata. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 3(3): 206-333 [309].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM Y1648, 5–6 miles E of Lakes Entrance, 38 m, VIC.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Kott, P. 1985. The Australian Ascidiacea Pt 1, Phlebobranchia and Stolidobranchia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 23: 1-440 [53]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

West Pacific Ocean.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: Central E coast, NE coast
  • South Australia: Great Australian Bight, S Gulfs coast
  • Victoria: Bass Strait

Oriental Region

• Indonesia

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

On and in sandy sediments, sand, small stones and shells.

 

History of changes

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