Species Trididemnum dispersum (Sluiter, 1909)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Didemnum dispersum Sluiter, C.P. 1909. Die Tunicaten der Siboga Expedition. Pt II. Die merosomen Ascidien. Siboga-Expéditie Report 56B: 1-112 [54].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ZMA TU443.1, Salibabu Is., Samau Is., Indonesia; ZMA TU 443.2, Salibabu Is., Samau Is., Indonesia.
• Trididemnum tegulum Kott, P. 1984. Related species of Trididemnum in symbiosis with Cyanophyta. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 107(4): 515-520 [515].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM GH1492, under boulders on weed and rubble, Heron Is., Great Barrier Reef, QLD.
  Paratype(s) QM GH892; QM GH1337; QM GH1350; QM GH1493–5.

 

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. [91]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), 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: Great Barrier Reef
  • Western Australia: Central W coast

Oriental Region

• Indonesia

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Obligate cyanophyte symbionts.

 

General References

Kott, P. 2001. The Australian Ascidiacea Pt 4, Didemnidae. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 47(1): 1-410 [267]

Kott, P. 2004. New and little known species of Didemnidae (Ascidiacea, Tunicata) from Australia (part 1). Journal of Natural History 38(6): 731-774 [761]

Kott, P. 2005. New and little known species of Didemnidae (Ascidiacea, Tunicata) from Australia (Part 3). Journal of Natural History 39(26): 2409-2479 [2455]

Larkum, A.W.D., Cox, G.C., Hiller, R.G., Parry, D.L. & Dibbayawan, T.P. 1987. Filamentous cyanophytes containing phycourobilin and in symbiosis with sponges and an ascidian of coral reefs. Marine Biology, Berlin 95: 1-13

 

History of changes

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