Species Styela plicata (Lesueur, 1823)
- Ascidia plicata Lesueur, C.A. 1823. Descriptions of several new species of Ascidia. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 3(1): 2-8 [5].
Type data:
Holotype ANSP (depository uncertain), on bottom of vessel, Philadelphia Harbour, USA. - Styela gyrosa Heller, C. 1877. Untersuchungen über die Tunicaten des Adriatischen und Mittlemeeres (3). Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Wien 37(1): 241-275 [255].
Type data:
Holotype ZMB 2288, Adriatic Sea, Trieste. - Styela pinguis Herdman, W.A. 1898. Note on the Tunicata fauna of Australian seas. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7(1): 443-450 [445] [nom. nud.].
Type data:
Syntype(s). - Styela pinguis Herdman, W.A. 1899. Descriptive catalogue of the Tunicata in the Australian Museum. Australian Museum, Sydney, Catalogue 17: 1-139 [40].
Type data:
Syntype(s) AM U141 (G2070), Port Jackson, NSW.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Van Name, W.G. 1921. Ascidians of the West Indian region and south-eastern United States. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 44: 283-494 [435]
Introduction
Styela plicata, an invasive in Australian and New Zealand, arrived "as early as 1878 and [spread] among harbours in the region" (Torkkola et al. (2013).
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
West Indian Ocean, West Indies.
Introduced.
IMCRA
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), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), 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)
Ecological Descriptors
Benthic, marine.
Extra Ecological Information
Tolerates brackish and polluted waters.
General References
Kott, P. 1985. The Australian Ascidiacea Pt 1, Phlebobranchia and Stolidobranchia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 23: 1-440 [116]
Torkkola, J., Riginos, C. & Liggins, L. 2013. Regional patterns of mtDNA diversity in Styela plicata, an invasive ascidian, from Australian and New Zealand marinas. Marine and Freshwater Research 64(2): 139–145
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 14-Dec-2012 | 25-Feb-2013 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |