Species Botryllus schlosseri (Pallas, 1766)
Sea Daisies
- Alcyonium schlosseri Pallas, P.S. 1766. Elenchus zoophytorum sistens generum adumbrationes generaliores et specierum cognitarum succinctas descriptiones cum selectis auctorum synonymis. Hagae-comitum : P. van Cleef 451 pp. [355].
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Status unknown, Falmouth, English Channel. - Botryllus stellatus Gaertner, J. 1774. Zoophyta, quaedam minuta. pp. 24-41 in Pallas, P.S. (ed.). Specilegia Zoologia. Berolini : G.A. Lange fasc. 10. [37].
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Status unknown, shores of Cornwall to Penzance, England. - Alcyonium borlasii Turton, W. 1807. pp. 132, 207-208 in, The British Fauna, containing a compendium of the Zoology of the British Islands. Swansea : J. Evans. [207].
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Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Mounts Bay, English Channel. - Botryllus polycyclus Savigny, J.C. 1816. Recherches anatomiques sur les ascidies composées et sur les ascidies simples—Système de la classe des Ascidies pp. 1–239. In Mémoires sur les Animaux sans Vertèbres, Pt 2. Paris : G. Dufour. [47, 84, 202].
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Status unknown, Suez Canal. - Botryllus gemmeus Savigny, J.C. 1816. Recherches anatomiques sur les ascidies composées et sur les ascidies simples—Système de la classe des Ascidies pp. 1–239. In Mémoires sur les Animaux sans Vertèbres, Pt 2. Paris : G. Dufour. [203].
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Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Suez Canal. - Botryllus minutus Savigny, J.C. 1816. Recherches anatomiques sur les ascidies composées et sur les ascidies simples—Système de la classe des Ascidies pp. 1–239. In Mémoires sur les Animaux sans Vertèbres, Pt 2. Paris : G. Dufour. [204].
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Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Suez Canal. - Aplidium verrucosum Dalyell, J.D. 1839. Edinburgh New Philosophy Journal. 26: 152–158. [155].
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Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Firth of Forth, Scotland. - Botryllus violaceus 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 [305] [junior homonym of Botryllus violaceus Quoy & Gaimard, 1834].
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Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue, (Channel coast) France. - Botryllus smaragdus 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 [307].
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Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue, (Channel coast) France. - Botryllus bivittatus 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 [308].
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Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Langrune, (Channel coast) France. - Botryllus rubens Alder, J. & Hancock, A. 1848. Tunicata in Catalogue of the Mollusca of Northumberland and Durham. Transactions of the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club 1: 195-207 [dated 1846-1850] [204].
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Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Cullercoats, Northumberland, England. - Botryllus castaneus Alder, J. & Hancock, A. 1848. Tunicata in Catalogue of the Mollusca of Northumberland and Durham. Transactions of the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club 1: 195-207 [dated 1846-1850] [205].
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Holotype HMN, Cullercoats, Northumberland, England. - Botryllus virescens Alder, J. & Hancock, A. 1848. Tunicata in Catalogue of the Mollusca of Northumberland and Durham. Transactions of the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club 1: 195-207 [dated 1846-1850] [205].
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Holotype HMN, Cullercoats, Northumberland, England. - Botryllus gouldii Verrill, A.E. 1871. Descriptions of some imperfectly known and new ascidians from New England. American Journal of Science 3 1: 54-58, 93-100, 211-212, 288-294, 443-446 [211].
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Syntype(s) YPM 1383 (whereabouts of other syntype(s) unknown), Brooklyn, Long Island, New York. - Botryllus calendula Giard, A.M. 1872. Recherches sur les ascidies composées ou synascidies. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 1: 613-662 [623].
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Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Roscoff, France. - Botryllus pruinosus Giard, A.M. 1872. Recherches sur les ascidies composées ou synascidies. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 1: 613-662 [627].
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Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Roscoff, France. - Botryllus aurolineatus Giard, A.M. 1872. Recherches sur les ascidies composées ou synascidies. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 1: 613-662 [629].
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Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Roscoff, France. - Botryllus morio Giard, A.M. 1872. Recherches sur les ascidies composées ou synascidies. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 1: 613-662 [629].
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Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Roscoff, France. - Botryllus marionis Giard, A.M. 1872. Recherches sur les ascidies composées ou synascidies. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 1: 613-662 [630].
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Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Roscoff, France. - Botryllus rubigo Giard, A.M. 1872. Recherches sur les ascidies composées ou synascidies. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 1: 613-662 [631].
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Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Roscoff, France. - Botryllus violatinctus Hartmeyer, R. 1909. Ascidien (continuation of work by Seeliger). pp. 1281-1488 in Bronn, H.G. (ed.). Klassen und Ordnungen des Tier-Reichs. Leipzig : C.F. Winter Vol. 3, suppl. pts 81–87. [1379] [nom. nov. for Botryllus violaceus Milne-Edwards, 1841].
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Syntype(s). - Botryllus badius Alder, J. & Hancock, A. 1912. The British Tunicata III J. Hopkinson, editor. Ray Society Publications 8: 1-113 [70].
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Holotype HMN, Isle of Man, England. - Botryllus calyculatus Alder, J. & Hancock, A. 1912. The British Tunicata III J. Hopkinson, editor. Ray Society Publications 8: 1-113 [70].
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Holotype HMN, Peterhead, east coast of Scotland. - Botryllus miniatus Alder, J. & Hancock, A. 1912. The British Tunicata III J. Hopkinson, editor. Ray Society Publications 8: 1-113 [76].
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Holotype HMN, Falmouth, Cornwall, England.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Hartmeyer, R. 1923. Ascidiacea, part I. Zugleich eine Übersicht über die Arktische und boreale Ascidienfauna auf tiergeographischer Grundlage. Ingolf-Exped 2(6): 1-365 [344]
Distribution
States
Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
North Atlantic Ocean, North Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea and Adriatic.
IMCRA
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 Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- Queensland: Central E coast, NE coast
- South Australia: Great Australian Bight, S Gulfs coast
- Tasmania: Bass Strait, Tas. coast
- Victoria: Bass Strait
- Western Australia: Central W coast, Lower W coast
- New Zealand
Oriental Region
- Hong Kong
Ecological Descriptors
Benthic, marine.
Extra Ecological Information
Mainly in temperate waters.
General References
Kott, P. 1985. The Australian Ascidiacea Pt 1, Phlebobranchia and Stolidobranchia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 23: 1-440 [267]
Sabbadin, A. 1979. Ascidian colonial structure and genetics. pp. 433-444 in Larwood, G.L. & Rosen, B.R. (eds). Biology and Systematics of Colonial Organisms. London : Academic Press.
History of changes
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| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |