Species Pyrosoma atlanticum Péron, 1804

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pyrosoma atlanticum Péron, F. 1804. Mémoire sur le nouveau genre Pyrosoma. Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris 4(12): 437-446 pl. lxxii [437].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, MNHP (depository uncertain, not found), equatorial Atlantic Ocean beween Mauritius and Europe.

  Secondary source:

   Herdman, W.A. 1888. Report upon the Tunicata collected during the voyage of H.M.S. 'Challenger', during the years 1873–1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 27(76): 1-166 pls i-xi.
• Pyrosoma elegans Lesueur, C.A. 1813. Mémoire sur quelques nouvelles espèces d'animaux mollusques et radiares receueilles dans la Méditerranée près de Nice. Nouveau Bulletin des Sciences, par la Société Philomatique de Paris 3: 281-285, 1 pl. [283].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, MNHP (depository uncertain, not found), Nice, Mediterranean Sea.

  Secondary source:

   Herdman, W.A. 1888. Report upon the Tunicata collected during the voyage of H.M.S. 'Challenger', during the years 1873–1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 27(76): 1-166 pls i-xi.
• Pyrosoma giganteum Lesueur, C.A. 1815. Mémoire sur l'organisation des Pyrosomes et sur la place qu'ils semblent devoir occuper dans une classification naturel. Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris 4: 70-74 pl. i [70].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP TP163, Nice, Mediterranean Sea.

  Secondary source:

   Herdman, W.A. 1888. Report upon the Tunicata collected during the voyage of H.M.S. 'Challenger', during the years 1873–1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 27(76): 1-166 pls i-xi.
• Pyrosoma rufum Quoy, J.R.C. & Gaimard, J.P. 1824. Zoologie pp. 497–516. in, Le voyage autour du Monde, sur les corvettes de S.M. l' Uranie et la Physicienne 1817–1820. Paris : Pilet Ainé. [514].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, MNHP (depository uncertain, not found), environs of the Cape of Good Hope, 4400 m S Atlantic [38°23'S 37°28'W].
• Dipleurosoma ellipticum Brooks, W.K. 1906. The affinities of pelagic tunicates. No. 1. On a new Pyrosoma and Dipleurosoma elliptica. Memoirs of the National Academy of Science Washington 10: 149-156 [151].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, USNM (depository uncertain, not found), Gulf Stream off Beaufort, North Carolina.
• Pyrosoma triangulum Neumann, G. 1909. Mitteilung über eine neue Pyrosomen Art der Deutschen Tiefsee Expedition. Zoologischer Anzeiger 33(24–25): 792 [792].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMB 2978, South Atlantic Ocean.
• Pyrosoma benthica Monniot, C. & Monniot, F. 1966. Un pyrosome benthique: Pyrosoma benthica n.sp. Comptes Rendus (Hebdomadaires) des Séances de l'Academie des Sciences. Série D. Sciences Naturelles 263(D): 368-370 [368].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, MNHP (depository uncertain, not found), Cape Verde Is., between Boavista and Maio [15°34'30"N 23°11'30"W].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Van Soest, R.W.M. 1981. A monograph of the order Pyrosomatida (Tunicata, Thaliacea). Journal of Plankton Research 3(4): 603-631 [612]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

East and west Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans and Mediterranean.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

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), Southern Province (8)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Lower E coast
  • South Australia: Great Australian Bight, S Gulfs coast
  • Tasmania: Bass Strait
  • Victoria: Bass Strait

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, planktonic.

Extra Ecological Information

Most plentiful below 250 m, in waters of 7ºC to 30ºC.

 

General References

Ivanova-Kazas, O.M. 1962. Sur les forme primitive du développement chez les Pyrosomida. Cahiers de Biologie Marine 3: 191-208

Neumann, G. 1935. Thaliacea. pp. 203-500 in Kükenthal, W. & Krumbach, T. (eds). Handbuch der Zoologie. Berlin : Walter de Gruyter Vol. 5(2).

 

History of changes

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