Genus Lissoclinum Verrill, 1871
- Lissoclinum Verrill, A.E. 1871. Descriptions of some imperfectly known and new ascidians from New England. American Journal of Science 3 1: 54-58, 93-100, 211-212, 288-294, 443-446 [444].
Type species:
Lissoclinum aureum Verrill, 1871 by subsequent designation, see Van Name, W.G. 1910. Compound ascidians of the coasts of New England and neighbouring British Provinces. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 34: 339-424. - Echinoclinum Van Name, W.G. 1902. The ascidians of the Bermuda Islands. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 11: 325-412 [372].
Type species:
Echinoclinum verrilli Van Name, 1902 by monotypy.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Kott, P. 1998. Tunicata. 51-259, 259–261 (App. I–111), 265–292 (Index) in Wells, A. & Houston, W.W.K. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 34. Hemichordata, Tunicata, Cephalochordata. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia 298 pp. [87]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
East Pacific Ocean off south America to California, West Indies, north Atlantic Ocean to Arctic Ocean and northwest of Iceland, west Pacific Ocean.
IMCRA
Timor Transition (1), Lord Howe Province (14), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), 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), 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)
Other Regions
Coral Sea Islands Territory
Original AFD Distribution Data
Afrotropical Region
- Mauritius
Australian Region
- Australia
- 200 m bathymetric: G. Aust. Bight, Tas. Coast
- Coral Sea Islands Territory
- Lord Howe Island
- New South Wales: Central E coast, Lower E coast
- Northern Territory: N coast
- Queensland: Central E coast, Great Barrier Reef, NE coast
- South Australia: Bass Strait, 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
- Federated States of Micronesia
- Fiji
- French Polynesia
- Guam
- New Caledonia
- Palau
- Papua New Guinea
Nearctic Region
- United States of America
- Florida
Oriental Region
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Aust. Terr.)
- Indonesia
- Philippines
- Singapore
- Thailand
Distribution References
- Hartmeyer, R. 1924. Ascidiacea, part II. Zugleich eine Übersicht über die Arktische und boreale Ascidienfauna auf tiergeographischer Grundlage. Ingolf-Exped 2(7): 1-275
- Kott, P. 1962. The ascidians of Australia III. Aplousobranchiata Lahille: Didemnidae Giard. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 13(3): 265-334
- Millar, R.H. 1962. Further descriptions of South African ascidians. Annals of the South African Museum 56(7): 113-221
- Millar, R.H. 1982. The marine fauna of New Zealand. Memoirs of the New Zealand Oceanographic Institute 85: 1-117
- Monniot, F. 1992. Ascidies de Nouvelle-Calédonie XII. Le genre Lissoclinum (Didemnidae) dans le lagon sud. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 4 14A(3–4): 565-589
- Nishikawa, T. 1990. The ascidians of the Japan Sea 1. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory 34(4–6): 73-148
- Van Name, W.G. 1945. The North and South American ascidians. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 84: 1-476
General References
Kott, P. 2005. New and little known species of Didemnidae (Ascidiacea, Tunicata) from Australia (Part 3). Journal of Natural History 39(26): 2409-2479 [2417]
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 [72, 73]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 14-Dec-2012 | 14-Dec-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |