Genus Phallusia Savigny, 1816

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• Phallusia Savigny, J.C. 1816. Recherches anatomiques sur les ascidies composées et sur les ascidies simples—Système de la classe des Ascidies pp. 1–239. In Mémoires sur les Animaux sans Vertèbres, Pt 2. Paris : G. Dufour. [101].

  Type species:

   Ascidia mammillata Cuvier, 1815 by original designation.
• Pachychlaena Herdman, W.A. 1880. Preliminary report on the Tunicata of the Challenger expedition. Ascidiidae. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 10(1): 458-472 [461] [introduced as a subgenus of Ascidia].

  Type species:

   Ascidia (Pachychlaena) oblonga Herdman, 1880 by original designation.
• Phallusiopsis Hartmeyer, R. 1908. Zur Terminologie der Familien und Gattungen der Ascidien. Zoologische Annalen. Würzburg 3: 1-63 [14].

  Type species:

   Phallusia nigra Savigny, 1816 by original designation.
• Plurascidia Monniot, F. & Monniot, C. 2000. Ascidiacea: Plurellidae collected in the Pacific Ocean by the cruises MUSORSTOM, KARUBAR and the "Coral Reef Research Foundation". In Crosnier, A. (ed.) Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 21. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 184. 703-721 pp. [714].

  Type species:

   Plurascidia marquesana F. & C. Monniot, 2000 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hartmeyer, R. 1909. Ascidien (continuation of work by Seeliger). pp. 1281-1488 in Bronn, H.G. (ed.). Klassen und Ordnungen des Tier-Reichs. Leipzig : C.F. Winter Vol. 3, suppl. pts 81–87. [1403]
• Kott, P. 2003. New syntheses and new species in the Australian Ascidiacea. Journal of Natural History 37: 1611-1653 [1631] (Plurascidia)

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Mediterranean Sea, northeast Atlantic Ocean, Indo-west Pacific Ocean.

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), 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

Afrotropical Region

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Central E coast, Lower E coast
  • Northern Territory: Gulf of Carpentaria, N coast
  • Queensland: Central E coast, Great Barrier Reef, NE coast
  • South Australia: S Gulfs coast
  • Victoria: Bass Strait
  • Western Australia: Central W coast, Lower W coast, N coast, NW coast, SW coast
• French Polynesia
• New Caledonia
• Palau

Oriental Region

• Indonesia
• Philippines
• Singapore
• Sri Lanka

Distribution References

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)