Genus Botrylloides Milne-Edwards, 1841
- Botrylloides Milne Edwards, H. 1841. Observations sur les ascidies composées des côtes de la Manche. Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences de l'Institut de France 18: 217-326 [301] [= B. leachii].
Type species:
Botrylloides rotifer Milne-Edwards, 1841 by original designation. - Sarcobotrylloides Drasche, R. von 1883. Die Synascidien der Bucht von Rovigno (Istrien). In, Ein Beitrag zur Fauna der Adria Wien : Carl Gerolds Sohn. 41 pp. [14].
Type species:
Sarcobotrylloides superbum Drasche, 1883 by monotypy. - Metrocarpa Ärnbäck-Christie-Linde, A. 1923. Northern and Arctic invertebrates in the collection of the Swedish State Museum. IX Tunicata, Part 2. Botryllidae. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm 2 63(9): 1-25 [5] [junior subjective synonym of Botrylloides Milne-Edwards, 1841].
Type species:
Botryllus leachii Savigny, 1816 by original designation.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Huus, J. 1937. Ascidiaceae. pp. 545-692 in Kükenthal, W. & Krumbach, T. (eds). Handbuch der Zoologie. Berlin : Walter de Gruyter Vol. 5(2). [674]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Worldwide in temperate and tropical seas.
IMCRA
Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Lord Howe Province (14), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), 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), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Afrotropical Region
- South Africa
Australian Region
- Australia
- Lord Howe Island
- New South Wales: Central E coast, Lower E coast
- Queensland: Central E coast, NE coast, SE oceanic
- South Australia: Great Australian Bight, S Gulfs coast
- Tasmania: Bass Strait, SE oceanic, Tas. coast
- Victoria: Bass Strait, SE oceanic
- Western Australia: Central W coast, Lower W coast, NW coast, SW coast
- New Zealand
- South Island
- Palau
- Papua New Guinea
Oriental Region
- Hong Kong
- Indonesia
- Philippines
Palaearctic Region
- Japan
Distribution References
- Berrill, N.J. 1950. The Tunicata. Ray Society Publications 133: 1-354
- Hartmeyer, R. 1923. Ascidiacea, part I. Zugleich eine Übersicht über die Arktische und boreale Ascidienfauna auf tiergeographischer Grundlage. Ingolf-Exped 2(6): 1-365
- Kott, P. 1985. The Australian Ascidiacea Pt 1, Phlebobranchia and Stolidobranchia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 23: 1-440
- Monniot, C. 1988. Ascidies de Nouvelle-Calédonie IV. Styelidae (suite). Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 4 10A(2): 163-196
- Monniot, C. & Monniot, F. 1987. Les ascidies de Polynésie française. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 136: 1-155
- Nishikawa, T. 1991. The ascidians of the Japan Sea. II. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory 35(1–3): 26-170
- Van Name, W.G. 1945. The North and South American ascidians. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 84: 1-476
General References
Ryland, J.S. 2015. Gender of the genus Botrylloides Milne Edwards (1841) [Tunicata: Ascidiacea]. Zootaxa 3973(2): 398–400 (correction to gender of species, including type species corrected from rotifera to rotifer)
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 14-Dec-2012 | 17-Jun-2015 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |