Species Rhodosoma turcicum (Savigny, 1816)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Phallusia turcica 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. [102].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, MNHP (depository uncertain, not found), Red Sea.
• Rhodosoma verecundum 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 data:

   Syntype(s) ZMB 129, 130, Red Sea.
• Schizascus pellucidus 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 data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, China coast.
• Schizascus papillosus 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 data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, between Gulzlaff Is. and Hsia-men, 86 m, China coast.
• Pera huxleyi Macdonald, J.D. 1862. On a new Tunicata occurring on one of the Bellona Reefs. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 6: 78-81 [78].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Bellona Reefs, New Caledonia [21°51'S 159°29'E].
• Chevreulius callensis 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 data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP P4 RHO3, La Calle, Mediterranean Sea.
• Rhodosoma seminudum Heller, C. 1878. Beiträge zur nähern Kenntnis der Tunicaten. Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien 77(1): 83-109 [89].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, NHMW (depository uncertain, not found), Jamaica, West Indies.
• Rhodosoma pyxis Traustedt, M.P.A. 1882. Vestindiske Ascidiae Simplices, Forste Afdeling. Phallusiadae. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i Kjøbenhavn 1881: 257-288 [274].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMUC, Chile.
• Corellascidia herdmani Hartmeyer, R. 1900. Nachtrag zu Monascidien von Ternate. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 25(1): 235-242 [236].

  Type data:

   Holotype SMF (depository uncertain), littoral, Ternate, Indonesia.
• Rhodosoma ceylonicum Herdman, W.A. 1906. Report on the Tunicata. Ceylon Pearl Oyster Fisheries Supplement Report 39: 295-348 [302].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1907.8.30.4, Palk Bay, Sri Lanka.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hartmeyer, R. & Michaelsen, W. 1928. Ascidiae Diktyobranchiae und Ptychobranchiae. Fauna Südwest-Australien 5: 251-460 [313]

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Coral Sea, Indian Ocean, Red Sea, Mediterranean, Atlantic Ocean.

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

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Generally in shallow water, but taken in large numbers off NE Tasmania at 174–155 m.

 

General References

Hartmeyer, R. 1901. Zur Kenntnis des genus Rhodosoma. Archiv für Naturgeschichte Supplement 67: 151-168

Kott, P. 1954. Tunicata, Ascidians. Report of the British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition 1(4): 121-182

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

 

History of changes

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