Species Sigillina cyanea (Herdman, 1899)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Colella cyanea Herdman, W.A. 1899. Descriptive catalogue of the Tunicata in the Australian Museum. Australian Museum, Sydney, Catalogue 17: 1-139 [70].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM U153, U346, Port Jackson, NSW.
• Colella cyanea Herdman, W.A. 1898. Note on the Tunicata fauna of Australian seas. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7(1): 443-450 [447] [nom. nud.].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s).
• Sigillina caerulea Sluiter, C.P. 1909. Die Tunicaten der Siboga Expedition. Pt II. Die merosomen Ascidien. Siboga-Expéditie Report 56B: 1-112 [31].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, ZMA (depository uncertain, not found), Pulu Jedan, east coast of Aru Is., 13 m, Indonesia.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Kott, P. 1990. The Australian Ascidiacea Pt 2, Aplousobranchia (1). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 29(1): 1-266 [89]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, 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), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southern Province (8)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Central E coast, Lower E coast
  • Queensland: Central E coast, Great Barrier Reef
  • Western Australia: Central W coast, Lower W coast, NW coast, SW coast

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

To 150 m.

 

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)