Species Phallusia arabica Savigny, 1816

Museums

Regional Maps

• Phallusia arabica 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. [164].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, MNHP (depository uncertain, not found), Gulf of Suez.
• Phallusia philippinensis Millar, R.H. 1975. Ascidians from the Indo-West Pacific region in the Zoological Museum, Copenhagen (Tunicata, Ascidiacea). Steenstrupia 3(20): 205-336 [273].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMUC, Banda Is., Waling Cesar, 25 m, Indonesia.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Kott, P. 1985. The Australian Ascidiacea Pt 1, Phlebobranchia and Stolidobranchia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 23: 1-440 [63] (excepting Phallusia julinea Sluiter, 1915 (sic) and its synonyms, included erroneously on p. 61)

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Gulf of Suez, Red Sea.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N coast
  • Queensland: Great Barrier Reef, NE coast

Oriental Region

• Philippines
• Sri Lanka

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, marine.

 

General References

Kott, P. 2008. Biogeographic implications of Ascidiacea (Tunicata) from the Wessel Islands (Arafura Sea). The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 24: 63-77 [73] (new record)

 

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)