Species Sigillina australis Savigny, 1816

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sigillina australis 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. [179].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP A3 SIG.1, southwest coast of Australia (as New Holland), 40 m, WA.
• Atapozoa marshi Brewin, B.I. 1956. Atapozoa marshi, a compound ascidian from Western Australia. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 40(1): 31-32 [31].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM U3843, Triggs Is., WA.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Kott, P. 1990. The Australian Ascidiacea Pt 2, Aplousobranchia (1). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 29(1): 1-266 [87]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Transition (3), 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 Western Transition (5), Southern Province (8)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Lower E coast
  • South Australia: Great Australian Bight, S Gulfs coast
  • Western Australia: Central W coast, Lower W coast, NW coast
• New Zealand

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Roofs of caverns, under reefs.

 

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)