Species Pyura stolonifera (Heller, 1878)
Cunjevoi
- Cynthia stolonifera Heller, C. 1878. Beiträge zur nähern Kenntnis der Tunicaten. Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien 77(1): 1-28 [10].
Type data:
Status unknown, NHMW (depository uncertain), Simons Bay, South Africa. - Cynthia praeputialis Heller, C. 1878. Beiträge zur nähern Kenntnis der Tunicaten. Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien 77(1): 1-28 [12].
Type data:
Holotype ZMH K93, Port Jackson, NSW. - Microcosmus herdmani Drasche, R. von 1884. Ueber einige neue und weniger gekannte aussereuropäische einfache Ascidien. Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Wien 48: 369-387 [370].
Type data:
Holotype ZMB (depository uncertain), Simons Bay, South Africa. - Microcosmus coalitus Sluiter, C.P. 1898. Beiträge zur Kenntnis dei Fauna von Südafrica II. Tunicaten. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik 11: 1-64 [57].
Type data:
Holotype ZMA TU603, Port Nolloth, SW coast, South Africa. - Halocynthia vanhoeffeni Michaelsen, W. 1904. Die stolidobranchiaten Ascidien der deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer "Valdivia" 1898–1899 7: 183-260 [197].
Type data:
Holotype ZMB 1653, Luderitz Bay, South Africa. - Cynthiopsis valdiviae Michaelsen, W. 1904. Die stolidobranchiaten Ascidien der deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer "Valdivia" 1898–1899 7: 183-260 [201].
Type data:
Holotype ZMH K96, Plettenberg Bay, 100 m, South Africa [34°07'18"S 23°27'48"E].
Paratype(s) ZMB 1654, 1681. - Pyura bradleyi Van Name, W.G. 1931. New North and South American ascidians. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 61: 207-225 [221].
Type data:
Holotype YPM 2934, Zorritos, Peru.
Paratype(s) AMNH 871.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Michaelsen, W. 1923. Neue und altbekannte ascidien aus dem Reichsmuseum zu Stockholm. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum und Institut, Hamburg 40: 1-60 [50]
- Kott, P. 1985. The Australian Ascidiacea Pt 1, Phlebobranchia and Stolidobranchia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 23: 1-440 [328]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Equatorial west coasts of South America and west and south-east Africa.
IMCRA
Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Afrotropical Region
Australian Region
- Australia
- 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, Central W coast, Lower E coast, Lower W coast, S Gulfs coast, SW coast, Tas. Coast
Neotropical Region
Ecological Descriptors
Benthic, marine.
Extra Ecological Information
Aggregations on sediment free rocky substrate, solitary on sandy substrate.
General References
Astorga, M.P., Guiñez, R. & Castilla, J.C. 2009. Genetic divergence in the ascidian Pyura praeputialis (= Pyura stolonifera) Heller, 1878 from mainland Australia and Tasmania. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 143(2): 101-104
History of changes
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| 14-Dec-2012 | 14-Dec-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 05-Sep-2012 | 05-Sep-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 11-Nov-2010 | MODIFIED |