Species Clavelina meridionalis (Herdman, 1891)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Podoclavella meridionalis Herdman, W.A. 1891. A revised classification of the Tunicata, with definitions of the orders, sub-orders, families, sub-families and genera, and analytical keys to the species. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 23: 558-652 [603].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM U133 (G2091), Port Jackson, NSW.
  Paratype(s) QM G12247.
• Podoclavella procera Sluiter, C.P. 1904. Die Tunicaten der Siboga-Expedition. Pt. I, Die socialen und holosomen Ascidien. Siboga-Expéditie Report 56A: 1-126 [8].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ZMA TU761.3, 70 m, Indonesia [8°23'30"S 19°04'36"E].
  Paralectotype(s) ZMA TU1257.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Spoel, S. van der 1969. Catalogue of the type specimens of Tunicata in the Zoological Museum in Amsterdam. Bulletin Zoölogisch Museum, Universiteit van Amsterdam 1(13): 157-200 [185].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Kott, P. 1990. The Australian Ascidiacea Pt 2, Aplousobranchia (1). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 29(1): 1-266 [48]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

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), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Lower E coast
  • Queensland: NE coast
  • Western Australia: Lower W coast

Oriental Region

• Indonesia

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Tropical, subtropical, sandy bottoms to 20 m.

 

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)