Species Herdmania grandis (Heller, 1878)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cynthia grandis Heller, C. 1878. Beiträge zur nähern Kenntnis der Tunicaten. Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien 77(1): 83-109 [97].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMH, Port Jackson, NSW.
• Cynthia complanata Herdman, W.A. 1882. Report on the Tunicata collected during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–1876. Pt I, Ascidiae simplices. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 6(17): 1-296 [145].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH, Port Jackson, NSW.
• Microcosmus julinii Drasche, R. von 1884. Ueber einige neue und weniger gekannte aussereuropäische einfache Ascidien. Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Wien 48: 369-387 [371].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Port Jackson, NSW.
• Microcosmus draschii 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 data:

   Holotype AM U138, Port Stephens, NSW.
• Herdmania armata Monniot, F. & Monniot, C. 2001. Ascidians from the tropical western Pacific. Zoosystematica Rossica 23(2): 201-383 [337].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP S2 HER 20, 10–18 m, Nivani, Papua New Guinea [10°47.46'S 152°33.08'E].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Kott, P. 2002. The genus Herdmania Lahille, 1888 (Tunicata) in Australian waters. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 134: 359-374 [363-365]

 

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Central E coast, Lower E coast
  • Queensland: Central E coast, NE coast
  • South Australia: Great Australian Bight, S Gulfs coast
  • Tasmania: Tas. coast
  • Victoria: Bass Strait
  • Western Australia: Central W coast, Lower W coast, NW coast, SW coast
• Papua New Guinea

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, marine.

 

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)