Species Lissoclinum multifidum Sluiter, 1909

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lissoclinum multifidum Sluiter, C.P. 1909. Die Tunicaten der Siboga Expedition. Pt II. Die merosomen Ascidien. Siboga-Expéditie Report 56B: 1-112 [83].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMA TU 590, Moearas Reef, inner side, east coast of Borneo, 54 m, Indonesia.
• Lissoclinum concavum Kott, P. 2001. The Australian Ascidiacea Pt 4, Didemnidae. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 47(1): 1-410 [303].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA E2691, Franklin Is., SA.
• Polysoma testiculatum Kott, P. 1983. Two new genera of didemnid ascidians from tropical Australian waters. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 1(2): 13-19 [16].

  Type data:

   Holotype NTM E 11, Coral Bay, Port Essington, 3 m, NT.
  Paratype(s) QM GH802.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Kott, P. 2001. The Australian Ascidiacea Pt 4, Didemnidae. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 47(1): 1-410 [311]
• Kott, P. 2004. Ascidiacea (Tunicata) in Australian waters of the Timor and Arafura Seas. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 20: 37-81 [65]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

• Mauritius

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N coast
  • South Australia: S Gulfs coast
  • Tasmania: Tas. coast
  • Victoria: Bass Strait

Oriental Region

• Indonesia
• Thailand

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, marine.

 

General References

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 [73] (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)