Species Pyura spinifera (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ascidia spinifera Quoy, J.R.C. & Gaimard, J.P. 1834. Zoologie, Mollusques pp. 559–626. in, Voyages de découvertes de l'Astrolabe 1826–1829, Vol. 3. Paris : Pilet Ainé. [617].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP S2 PYU 265, King George Sound, Albany, WA.
• Boltenia australiensis Carter, H.J. 1885. Descriptions of sponges from the neighbourhood of Port Phillip Heads, South Australia, continued. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 15: 196-222 [197].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMH K51, Back Stairs Passage, Port Phillip Bay, VIC.
• Cynthia multiradicata Herdman, W.A. 1898. Note on the Tunicata fauna of Australian seas. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7(1): 443-450 [445] [nom. nud.].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s).
• Cynthia multiradicata Herdman, W.A. 1899. Descriptive catalogue of the Tunicata in the Australian Museum. Australian Museum, Sydney, Catalogue 17: 1-139 [30].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM U384 (G2065), Port Stephens, NSW.
• Boltenia tuberculata Herdman, W.A. 1891. A revised classification of the Tunicata, with definitions of the orders, sub-orders, families, sub-families and genera, and analytical keys to the species. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 23: 558-652 [571].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM U286, Port Jackson, NSW; AM U290 (G2056), Port Jackson, NSW; AM U350 (G2057), Port Jackson, NSW.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Kott, P. 1985. The Australian Ascidiacea Pt 1, Phlebobranchia and Stolidobranchia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 23: 1-440 [325]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Lower E coast
  • Tasmania: Bass Strait
  • Western Australia: Lower W coast, SW coast

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

To 80 m, whole body, including stalk, covered with sponge Halisarca australiensis Carter, 1885 [Halisarcidae].

 

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)