Species Microcosmus exasperatus Heller, 1878

Museums

Regional Maps

• Microcosmus exasperatus Heller, C. 1878. Beiträge zur nähern Kenntnis der Tunicaten. Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien 77(1): 1-28 [17].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, NHMW (depository uncertain, not found), Jamaica, West Indies.
• Microcosmus variegatus Heller, C. 1878. Beiträge zur nähern Kenntnis der Tunicaten. Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien 77(1): 1-28 [17].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, NHMW (depository uncertain, not found), Antilles, tropical west Atlantic Ocean.
• Microcosmus distans Heller, C. 1878. Beiträge zur nähern Kenntnis der Tunicaten. Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien 77(1): 1-28 [18].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, NHMW (depository uncertain, not found), Jamaica, West Indies.
• Microcosmus biconvolutus Sluiter, C.P. 1898. Tuniciers récueillis en 1896 par la Chazalie dans la Mers des Antilles. Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France 11: 5-34 [26].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, ZMA TU618, Schottegat, Curaçao, West Indies.
• Microcosmus miniatus Verrill, A.E. 1900. XVII. — Additions to the Tunicata and Molluscoidea of the Bermudas. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 10(2): 588-594 [590].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, shallow water, on reefs, under stones, Bermuda.
• Microcosmus haemisphaerium Sluiter, C.P. 1904. Die Tunicaten der Siboga-Expedition. Pt. I, Die socialen und holosomen Ascidien. Siboga-Expéditie Report 56A: 1-126 [52].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMA TU635.2, reef, Saleyer Is., Indonesia.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hartmeyer, R. & Michaelsen, W. 1928. Ascidiae Diktyobranchiae und Ptychobranchiae. Fauna Südwest-Australien 5: 251-460 [403]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

West Indies, E Africa, Red Sea.

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), 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

Afrotropical Region

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Central E coast, Lower E coast
  • Northern Territory: N coast
  • Queensland: Central E coast, NE coast
  • Western Australia: Central W coast, Lower W coast, N coast, NW coast
• Fiji
• Hawaii
• New Caledonia

Nearctic Region

• United States of America
  • Florida

Neotropical Region

• Bermuda
• Brazil

Oriental Region

• Indonesia
• Philippines

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, marine.

 

General References

Kott, P. 1985. The Australian Ascidiacea Pt 1, Phlebobranchia and Stolidobranchia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 23: 1-440 [348]

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 [73]

 

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)