Species Ritterella pedunculata (Herdman, 1891)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Psammaplidium pedunculatum 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 [620].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM U281 (G2112), Port Jackson, NSW.
• Ritterella herdmania Kott, P. 1957. Ascidians of Australia II. Aplousobranchiata Lahille; Clavelinidae Forbes and Hanley and Polyclinidae Verrill. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 8(1): 64-110 [102] [nom. nov. proposed erroneously for Psammaplidium pedunculatum Herdman, 1891, the senior rather than junior homonym of Ritterella pedunculata Tokioka, 1953].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), 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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Lower E coast
  • South Australia: Great Australian Bight, S Gulfs coast
  • Tasmania: Bass Strait, Tas. coast
  • Victoria: Bass Strait

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

To 12 m, often fast flowing currents, colonies often consolidated by, and stabilising, sand.

 

General References

Kott, P. 1992. The Australian Ascidiacea Pt 3, Aplousobranchia (2). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 32(2): 377-620

 

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)