Species Halocynthia papillosa (Gunnerus, 1765)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tethyum coriaceum Bohadsch, J.B. 1761. Bohadsch dequibusdam Animalibus marinis eorumque protietatibus liber. cap. vii (De Tethys), pp. 128–135 pl. x fig. 1–6 Dresden. [senior synonym suppressed in favour of Tethyum papillosum Gunnerus, 1765, see Hartmeyer, R., Michaelsen, W. & Sluiter, C.P. 1915. Tunicata. Ascidiae. In, Apstein, C. Nomina Conservanda. Sber. Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berl. 1915: 185–186].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Mediterranean.

  Secondary source:

   Hartmeyer, R., Michaelsen, W. & Sluiter, C.P. 1915. Tunicata. Ascidiae. In, Apstein, C. Nomina Conservanda. Sber. Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berl. 1915: 185–186.
• Tethyum papillosum Gunnerus, J.E. 1765. Söe-Pungen (Tethyum sociabile) fulständige beskreven. Trondhiemske Selskabs Skrifter 3: 81-102 [Translated 1767: Vollständige Beschreibund des Seebeutels. Drontheim Gesellsh. Shrift 3: 69 [100]] [100].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Mediterranean.
• Ascidia rustica Risso, A. 1826. Histoire Naturelle des Principales Productions de l'Europe Méridionale et Particulièrement de Celles des Environs de Nice et des Alpes Maritimes. Paris : F.-G.Levrault Vol. 4 iv, 439 pp., 12 pls. [Date published November 1826] [274] [as Ascidea rustica; junior homonym of Ascidia rustica Linnaeus, 1767 (=Styela rustica (Linnaeus, 1767))].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Europe méridionale.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hartmeyer, R. 1909. Ascidien (continuation of work by Seeliger). pp. 1281-1488 in Bronn, H.G. (ed.). Klassen und Ordnungen des Tier-Reichs. Leipzig : C.F. Winter Vol. 3, suppl. pts 81–87. [1340]
• Huntsman, A.G. 1912. Ascidians from the coasts of Canada. Transactions of the Royal Canadian Institute 9: 111-148 [135]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Atlantic coast of France, Mediterranean Sea.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE oceanic
  • Queensland: Great Barrier Reef, SE oceanic
• New Caledonia

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Coralline algae, sand and shell grit, coral debris, 13 m (Heron Is.).

 

General References

Kott, P. 1985. The Australian Ascidiacea Pt 1, Phlebobranchia and Stolidobranchia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 23: 1-440 [344]

Kott, P. 1990. The Australian Ascidiacea, Phlebobranchia and Stolidobranchia, supplement. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 29(1): 267-298 [288]

 

History of changes

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