Species Didemnum psammatode (Sluiter, 1895)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Leptoclinum psammatode Sluiter, C.P. 1895. Tunicaten. In, Semon, R. Zoologische Forschungsreisen in Australien und den Malayischen Archipel. Denkschr. Med.- Naturw. Ges. Jena 8: 163–186; Nachtrag zu den tunicaten: 325–326. [171] [as Leptoclinum psamathodes, lapsus].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMA TU588, Thursday Is., Torres Strait.
• Hypurgon skeati Sollas, I.B.J. 1903. On Hypurgon skeati a new genus and species of compound ascidian. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science ns 46: 729-735 [729].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, BMNH (depository uncertain, not found), Pulau Bidang, Malaysia.
• Hypurgon fuscum Oka, A. 1931. Ueber eine neue Art von der Merkwürdigen Synascien-Gattung Hypurgon. Proceedings of the Imperial Academy of Japan 7: 287-290 [287] [junior homonym of Didemnum fuscum Sluiter, 1909].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) UTZM 463 (S61), 332 (S81), Japan.
• Didemnum dorotubu Tokioka, T. 1967. Pacific Tunicata of the United States National Museum. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 251: 1-242 [74] [nom. nov. for Hypurgon fuscum Oka, 1931].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Kott, P. 1981. The ascidians of the reef flats of Fiji. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 105(3): 147-212 [173]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

West Indian Ocean, Red Sea.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), 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: Central E coast
  • Queensland: Central E coast, Great Barrier Reef, NE coast
  • Victoria: Bass Strait
• New Zealand

Oriental Region

• Indonesia
• Malaysia

Palaearctic Region

• Japan

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, marine.

 

General References

Kott, P. 2001. The Australian Ascidiacea Pt 4, Didemnidae. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 47(1): 1-410 [229]

Kott, P. 2008. Biogeographic implications of Ascidiacea (Tunicata) from the Wessel Islands (Arafura Sea). The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 24: 63-77 [70] (new record)

 

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)