Species Didemnum fragile Sluiter, 1909

Museums

Regional Maps

• Didemnnum fragile Sluiter, C.P. 1909. Die Tunicaten der Siboga Expedition. Pt II. Die merosomen Ascidien. Siboga-Expéditie Report 56B: 1-112 [56].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ZMA TU446.3, Wunoh-Bay, NW coast of Waigeu Is., 32 m, Indonesia.
  Paralectotype(s) ZMA TU446.1, 446.2.

  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 [172].
• Didemnum proliferum Kott, P. 1981. The ascidians of the reef flats of Fiji. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 105(3): 147-212 [171].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM G12577, Viti Levu, Vuda Point, LWM, Fiji.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Kott, P. 2001. The Australian Ascidiacea Pt 4, Didemnidae. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 47(1): 1-410 [177]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

West Pacific Ocean.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N coast
  • Queensland: Great Barrier Reef, NE coast
  • Western Australia: N coast
• Fiji
• French Polynesia
• Palau

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, marine.

 

General References

Kott, P. 2005. New and little known species of Didemnidae (Ascidiacea, Tunicata) from Australia (Part 3). Journal of Natural History 39(26): 2409-2479 [2441]

 

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)