Species Trididemnum sibogae (Hartmeyer, 1910)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Didemnum sibogae Hartmeyer, R. 1910. Ascidien (continuation of work by Seeliger). pp. 1489-1680 in Bronn, H.G. (ed.). Klassen und Ordnungen des Tier-Reichs. Leipzig : C.F. Winter Vol. 3, suppl., pts 88–94. [1489] [nom. nov. for Didemnum ramosum Sluiter, 1909].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s).
• Didemnum ramosum Sluiter, C.P. 1909. Die Tunicaten der Siboga Expedition. Pt II. Die merosomen Ascidien. Siboga-Expéditie Report 56B: 1-112 [63] [junior homonym of Didemnum ramosum Gottschaldt, 1898].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ZMA TU476.3, Jedan Is., Aru Is., 13 m, Indonesia.
  Paralectotype(s) ZMA TU1271; ZMA 476.1-2.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Spoel, S. van der 1969. Catalogue of the type specimens of Tunicata in the Zoological Museum in Amsterdam. Bulletin Zoölogisch Museum, Universiteit van Amsterdam 1(13): 157-200 [173].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Gulf of Manaar.

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), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Province (6)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Central E coast, Lower E coast
  • Northern Territory: Gulf of Carpentaria, N coast
  • Queensland: Gulf of Carpentaria, NE coast
  • South Australia: Great Australian Bight, S Gulfs coast
  • Tasmania: Tas. coast
  • Victoria: Bass Strait
  • Western Australia: NW coast
• New Caledonia

Oriental Region

• Indonesia

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Facultative Prochloron [Prochlorophyta] symbionts.

 

General References

Kott, P. 2001. The Australian Ascidiacea Pt 4, Didemnidae. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 47(1): 1-410 [283]

Kott, P. 2005. New and little known species of Didemnidae (Ascidiacea, Tunicata) from Australia (Part 3). Journal of Natural History 39(26): 2409-2479 [2458]

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 [72] (new record)

Monniot, F. 1995. Ascidies de Nouvelle-Calédonie XV. Le genre Didemnum. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 4 16A(2–4): 299-344 [328]

Parry, D.L. & Kott, P. 1988. Cosymbiosis in the Ascidiacea. Bulletin of Marine Science 42(1): 149-153 (as Tridemnum cerebriforme)

 

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)