Genus Rhodosoma Ehrenberg, 1828

Museums

Regional Maps

• Rhodosoma Ehrenberg, C.G. 1828. Zoologica Vol. 1, Praefatio. fol. 3. In, Symbolae Physicae seu Icones et descriptiones corporum naturalium novorum aut minus cognitorum, quae ex itineribus per Libyam, Aegyptum, Nubium, Dongalam, Syriam, Arabiam, et Hemprich st Christiani Godofredi Ehrenberg … studio annis MDCCCXX-MDCCCXXV redierunt. Vol. 3. Berolini : Officina Academica. [3].

  Type species:

   Phallusia turcica Savigny, 1816 by monotypy.
• Schizascus Stimpson, W. 1855. Description of some new marine invertebrata from the Chinese and Japanese Seas. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 7: 377-378 [377].

  Type species:

   Schizascus pellucidus Stimpson, 1855 by original designation.
• Peroides Macdonald, J.D. 1864. On the representative relationships of the fixed and free Tunicata, regarded as two subclasses of equivalent value; with some general remarks on their morphology. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 23(2): 171-183 [179].

  Type species:

   Pera huxleyi Macdonald, 1862 by monotypy.
• Chevreulius Lacaze-Duthiers, F.J.H. 1865. Sur un genre nouveau d'ascidien, le Chevreulius callensis Lac.-Duth. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie 5 4: 293-316 [293].

  Type species:

   Chevreulius callensis Lacaze-Duthiers, 1865 by monotypy.
• Corellascidia Hartmeyer, R. 1900. Nachtrag zu Monascidien von Ternate. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 25(1): 235-242 [235].

  Type species:

   Corellascidia herdmani Hartmeyer, 1900 by monotypy.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hartmeyer, R. 1901. Zur Kenntnis des genus Rhodosoma. Archiv für Naturgeschichte Supplement 67: 151-168 [158]
• Hartmeyer, R. & Michaelsen, W. 1928. Ascidiae Diktyobranchiae und Ptychobranchiae. Fauna Südwest-Australien 5: 251-460 [313]
• Kott, P. 1998. Tunicata. 51-259, 259–261 (App. I–111), 265–292 (Index) in Wells, A. & Houston, W.W.K. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 34. Hemichordata, Tunicata, Cephalochordata. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia 298 pp. [156] (for Peroides)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Pan-tropical, temperate west Pacific Ocean, temperate east Pacific Ocean, Mediterranean Sea.

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), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Central E coast, Lower E coast
  • Northern Territory: N coast
  • Queensland: Central E coast, NE coast
  • South Australia: Great Australian Bight, S Gulfs coast
  • Western Australia: Lower W coast, N coast, NW coast

Nearctic Region

• United States of America
  • California

Neotropical Region

• Chile

Oriental Region

• China (People's Republic)
• Indonesia
• Philippines

Palaearctic Region

• Japan

Distribution References

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)