Species Didemnum jedanense Sluiter, 1909

Museums

Regional Maps

• Didemnum jedanense Sluiter, C.P. 1909. Die Tunicaten der Siboga Expedition. Pt II. Die merosomen Ascidien. Siboga-Expéditie Report 56B: 1-112 [59].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ZMA TU454.1, Pulu Kaniungan ketjil, 11 m, Indonesia.

  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 [173].
• Didemnum reticulatum Sluiter, C.P. 1909. Die Tunicaten der Siboga Expedition. Pt II. Die merosomen Ascidien. Siboga-Expéditie Report 56B: 1-112 [60].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMA TU475.4, 475.5, off Kawio- and Kamboling islands, Karkaralong group, 23–31m, Indonesia; off Pulu Jedan, east coast of Aru islands (Pearl banks), 13 m, Indonesia.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Kott, P. 2001. The Australian Ascidiacea Pt 4, Didemnidae. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 47(1): 1-410 [194]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

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), Southern Province (8)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N coast
  • Queensland: Great Barrier Reef, NE coast
  • Western Australia: N coast
• New Caledonia

Oriental Region

• Indonesia

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, marine.

 

General References

Kott, P. 2004. Ascidiacea (Tunicata) in Australian waters of the Timor and Arafura Seas. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 20: 37-81 [55]

 

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)