Species Oikopleura fusiformis Fol, 1872

Museums

Regional Maps

• Oikopleura fusiformis 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 [473].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, GMNH (depository uncertain, not found), Straits of Messina, Mediterranean Sea.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Great Barrier Reef, central E coast, lower E coast, QLD, NSW, VIC, ; also Indian Ocean, Indo-Pacific Ocean.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), 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

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Central E coast, Lower E coast
  • Queensland: Central E coast, Great Barrier Reef
  • Victoria: Bass Strait
  • Western Australia: Central W coast

Palaearctic Region

• Japan

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, planktonic.

Extra Ecological Information

Warm water to 29.3ºC.

 

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)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)