Species Pyura gangelion (Savigny, 1816)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cynthia gangelion 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. [90].
• Pyura obesa Hartmeyer, R. 1919. Ascidien. In, Results of Dr E. Mjöberg's Swedish scientific expeditions to Australia 1910–1913. K. Svenska Vetensk.-Akad. Handl. 60(4): 1–150. [14] [junior homonym of Pyrua obesa Sluiter, 1912].

  Type data:

   Holotype NHRM 1041, 45 miles WSW Cape Jaubert, 120–144 m, WA.
• Pyura robusta Hartmeyer, R. 1922. Miscellanea Ascidiologica. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 10: 299-323 [319] [nom. nov. for Pyrua obesa Hartmeyer, 1919].
• Pyura albanyensis Michaelsen, W. 1927. Einige neue westaustralische ptychobranchiate Ascidien. Zoologischer Anzeiger 71: 193-203 [193].

  Type data:

   Holotype MGH K1395, Oyster Harbour, Albany, 0.75–5.5 m, WA.
• Pyura scoresbiensis Kott, P. 1972. The ascidians of South Australia I. Spencer Gulf, St Vincent Gulf and Encounter Bay. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 96(1): 1-52 [36].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA E876, off Semaphore, Gulf St Vincent, 18 m, SA.
  Paratype(s) SAMA E892, E912.
• Halocynthia sansibarica Michaelsen, W. 1908. Die Pyuriden (Halocynthiiden) des Naturhistorischen Museum zu Hamburg. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum und Institut, Hamburg 25(2): 227-287 [251].

  Type data:

   Holotype MGH T 91, Zanzibar.
• Pyura tongaea Monniot, C. & Monniot, F. 1976. Les ascidies de la côte du Mozambique. Revue de Zoologie Africaine 90(2): 357-393 [381].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP S2 PYU 21, d'Inhaca, Mozambique.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Kott, P. 1985. The Australian Ascidiacea Pt 1, Phlebobranchia and Stolidobranchia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 23: 1-440 [315] (P. albanyensis, P. scoresbiensis)
• Monniot, C. 2002. Stolidobranch ascidians from the tropical western Indian Ocean. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 135: 65-102 [100] (Halocynthia sansibarica)
• Kott, P. 2004. Ascidiacea (Tunicata) in Australian waters of the Timor and Arafura Seas. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 20: 37-81 [73]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Red Sea, Zanzibar.

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), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

• Djibouti

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N coast
  • South Australia: S Gulfs coast
  • Western Australia: N coast, SW coast
• New Caledonia
• Palau
• Papua New Guinea

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
05-Sep-2012		05-Sep-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)