Species Oikopleura longicauda (Vogt, 1854)

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Species Oikopleura longicauda (Vogt, 1854)

Appendicularia longicauda Vogt, C. 1854. Recherches sur les animaux inférieurs de la Méditerranée. Sci. Mém. sur les Tuniciers nageants de la mer de Nice. Mémoires de l'Institut National Genevois 2(3): 1-102 pls v-x [74].
Type data:
Status unknown, GMNH (depository uncertain, not found), off Nice, Mediterranean Sea.
Oikopleura spissa 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 [470].
Type data:
Status unknown, GMNH (depository uncertain, not found), Straits of Messina, Mediterranean Sea.
Oikopleura velifera Langerhans, P. 1880. Über Madeira's Appendicularien. Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie 34: 144-146 pl. vi [145].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Madeira, NE Atlantic Ocean.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Lohmann, H. 1896. Die Appendicularien der Plankton-Expedition. Ergebnisse der Plankton-Expedition der Humboldt-Stiftung 2(E.C.): 1-148 pls i-xxiv [59]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Mediterranean Sea, and most warmer oceanic waters, including areas where mixing with cold waters off Peru and S California.

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), 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
- South Australia: S Gulfs coast
- Victoria: Bass Strait
- Western Australia: Central W coast

Nearctic Region

United States of America
- California

Neotropical Region

Peru

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, planktonic.

Extra Ecological Information

Water temperature 11.2–29.7ºC, salinity 12.8–37.3 parts per thousand.

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)

Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory