Species Oikopleura dioica Fol, 1872

Museums

Regional Maps

• Oikopleura dioica Fol, H. 1872. Etudes sur les Appendiculaires du détroit de Messine. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève 21(2): 445-499 pls i-xi [472] [for stability in nomenclature this name is maintained here as the valid name, pending an application to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature to have it conserved].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, GMNH (depository uncertain, not found), Straits of Messina, Mediterranean Sea.
• Vexillaria flabellum Mueller, J. 1846. Bericht über einige neue Theirformen der Nordsee. Archiv für Anatomie, Physiologie und Wissenschaftliche Medecin 1846: 106 [106] [this is a little used name, and for stability in nomenclature, Oikopleura dioica Fol, 1872 is maintained here as the valid name, pending an application to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, North Sea.
• Vexillaria speciosa Eisen, A.G. 1874. Vexillaria speciosa n. sp. ett bidrag till Appendiculariornas Anatomi. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm ser. 4 12(9): 1-15 pls i-iii [1].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Fiskelbäckskil, Gullmarfjorden, Sweden.
• Oikopleura malmii Hartmann, R. 1878. Einige Mittheilungen über Appendicularien. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1878: 97-100 [100].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Kattegat.
• Oikomicron mitrateton Swainson, G. 1890. Appendicularia, with its 'haus'. International Journal of Microscopy and Natural Science 3 4: 10-19 [18].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Irish Sea.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Lohmann, H. 1895. Ueber die Verbreitung der Appendicularien im Atlantischen Oceane. Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte 67(2, 1): 113-120 [116]
• Lohmann, H. 1896. Die Appendicularien der Plankton-Expedition. Ergebnisse der Plankton-Expedition der Humboldt-Stiftung 2(E.C.): 1-148 pls i-xxiv [76]

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Tas. coast, VIC; also in warmer parts of all oceans 3.2–29.5ºC, rare in open sea.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

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), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

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

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, planktonic.

Extra Ecological Information

Never deeper than 200 m, water temperature 3.2–29.5ºC, salinity 11.4–36.7 parts per thousand.

 

General References

Thompson, H. 1945. Pelagic Tunicates of Australia. Melbourne : Council for Scientific and Industrial Research 196 pp. 75 pls.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		28-Aug-2014	MODIFIED