Species Oikopleura rufescens Fol, 1872

Museums

Regional Maps

• Oikopleura rufescens 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 [471].

  Type data:

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

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

In all oceans but rare in Mediterranean Sea, SE Atlantic Ocean and southern California.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), 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: Great Australian Bight, S Gulfs coast
  • Victoria: Bass Strait
  • Western Australia: Central W coast

Nearctic Region

• United States of America
  • California

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, planktonic.

Extra Ecological Information

Water temperature 13–29ºC, salinity 34.7–37.4 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)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)