Genus Herdmania Lahille, 1888

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• Herdmania Lahille, F. 1888. Etude systématique des tuniciers. Comptes Rendus de l'Association Française pour l'Avancement des Sciences 1887(2): 667-677 [677].

  Type species:

   Cynthia momus Savigny, 1816 by original designation.
• Rhabdocynthia 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 [575].

  Type species (included species):

   Rhabdocynthia complanta Herdman, 1882; Rhabdocynthia pallida Heller, 1878; Rhabdocynthia papietensis Herdman, 1892; Rhabdocynthia subfusca Herdman, 1891; Rhabdocynthia tenuis Herdman, 1891

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Van Name, W.G. 1945. The North and South American ascidians. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 84: 1-476 [341]

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Pantropical.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

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), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), 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), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7), Southern Province (8)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

• South Africa

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Central E coast, Lower E coast
  • Northern Territory
  • Queensland: Central E coast, Great Barrier Reef, NE coast
  • South Australia: Great Australian Bight, S Gulfs coast
  • Tasmania: Tas. coast
  • Victoria: Bass Strait
  • Western Australia: Central W coast, Lower W coast, N coast, NW coast, SW coast
• Fiji
• French Polynesia
• Hawaii
• Palau
• Papua New Guinea

Oriental Region

• Indonesia
• Philippines
• Taiwan

Palaearctic Region

• Japan

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)