Species Symplegma brakenhielmi (Michaelsen, 1904)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Diandrocarpa brakenhielmi Michaelsen, W. 1904. Revision der compositen Styeliden oder Polyzoinen. Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Anstalten 21(2): 1-124 [50].

  Type data:

   Holotype MGH T205, Veracruz, Gulf of Mexico.
• Symplegma oceania Tokioka, T. 1961. Ascidians collected during the Melanesian Expedition of the Osaka Museum of Natural History. I. Ascidians presented by Dr R.L.A. Catala of the aquarium of Noumea. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory 9(1): 103-138 [114].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) OMNH IV1320, encrusting polychaete tubes, Noumea, New Caledonia.
• Gynandrocarpa quadricornulis Sluiter, C.P. 1904. Die Tunicaten der Siboga-Expedition. Pt. I, Die socialen und holosomen Ascidien. Siboga-Expéditie Report 56A: 1-126 [126].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMA TU562.4, Tual Anchorage, Kei Islands, Indonesia.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Kott, P. 1998. Tunicata. 51-259, 259–261 (App. I–111), 265–292 (Index) in Wells, A. & Houston, W.W.K. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 34. Hemichordata, Tunicata, Cephalochordata. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia 298 pp. [203] (based on Kott, P. 1985. The Australian Ascidiacea Pt 1, Phlebobranchia and Stolidobranchia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 23: 1–440 (207))
• Kott, P. 2004. Ascidiacea (Tunicata) in Australian waters of the Timor and Arafura Seas. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 20: 37-81 [71]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Noumea, also West Indian Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean.

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 Transition (28), 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 Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N coast
  • Queensland: Central E coast, Great Barrier Reef, NE coast
  • South Australia: Great Australian Bight, S Gulfs coast
  • Victoria: Bass Strait
  • Western Australia: Central W coast, Lower W coast, NW coast
• Fiji
• New Caledonia
• Palau

Oriental Region

• China (People's Republic)
• Hong Kong
• Indonesia
• Sri Lanka

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, marine.

 

General References

Kott, P. 2008. Biogeographic implications of Ascidiacea (Tunicata) from the Wessel Islands (Arafura Sea). The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 24: 63-77 [76] (new record)

 

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)