Species Polycarpa olitoria (Sluiter, 1890)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Styela olitoria Sluiter, C.P. 1890. Die Evertebraten aus der Sammlung des Königlichen Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Niederländisch Indien in Batavia. Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië 50: 329-348 [341].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMA TU1034, Bay of Jakarta (as Djakarta), between Leiden Is. and Enkhuizen Is., 20 m, Indonesia.
• Styela solvens Sluiter, C.P. 1895. Tunicaten. In, Semon, R. Zoologische Forschungsreisen in Australien und den Malayischen Archipel. Denkschr. Med.- Naturw. Ges. Jena 8: 163–186; Nachtrag zu den tunicaten: 325–326. [182].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMA TU1060, Ambon, Indonesia.
• Polycarpa seriata Michaelsen, W. 1905. Revision von Heller's Ascidien-Typen aus dem Museum Godeffroy. Zoologische Jahrbücher Suppl. 8: 71-120 [112] [=Styela elata Heller: Sluiter, 1885].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMB 2003, Billiton, Indonesia.
• Styela ascidioides Herdman, W.A. 1906. Report on the Tunicata. Ceylon Pearl Oyster Fisheries Supplement Report 39: 295-348 [317].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1907.8.30.14, Alentura Paar, Gulf of Manaar, 18–52 m, Sri Lanka.
• Pandocia (Polycarpa) madagascariensis Michaelsen, W. 1912. Die Tethyiden (Styeliden) des Naturhistorischen Museum zu Hamburg, nebst nachtrag und Anhang einige anderen Familien betreffend. Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Anstalten 28(2): 109-186 [139].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMB (depository uncertain), Nossi-Bé, Malagasy.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Kott, P. 1985. The Australian Ascidiacea Pt 1, Phlebobranchia and Stolidobranchia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 23: 1-440 [180]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

West Indian Ocean.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), 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 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
  • Queensland: NE coast
  • Victoria: Bass Strait
  • Western Australia: Central W coast, NW coast

Oriental Region

• Indonesia
• Sri Lanka

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, marine.

 

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)