Genus Polyclinum Savigny, 1816

Museums

Regional Maps

• Polyclinum 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. [189].

  Type species:

   Polyclinum saturnium Savigny, 1816 by subsequent designation, see Hartmeyer, R. 1915. Ascidiarum nomina conservanda. pp. 247-258 in Apstein, C. Nomina Conservanda. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1915b: 247-258 [257].
• Glossophorum Lahille, F. 1887. Système musculaire du Glossophorum sabulosum (G.) (Polyclinum sabulosum, Giard). Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse 19: 107-116 [107].

  Type species:

   Polyclinum sabulosum Giard, 1872 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hartmeyer, R. 1916. Ueber einige Ascidien aus dem Golf von Suez. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1915: 397-430 [428]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Temperate and tropical seas to the Faroe Ils.

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 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), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), 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
  • New South Wales: Lower E coast
  • Northern Territory: N coast
  • Queensland: Central E coast, Great Barrier Reef, NE coast
  • South Australia: Great Australian Bight, S Gulfs coast
  • Tasmania: Bass Strait
  • Victoria: Bass Strait
  • Western Australia: Central W coast, Great Australian Bight, Lower W coast, N coast, NW coast, SW coast
• French Polynesia
• Hawaii
• Kiribati
• New Caledonia
• Palau

Oriental Region

• Indonesia
• Philippines

Distribution References

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)