Species Polycarpa aurita (Sluiter, 1890)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Styela aurita Sluiter, C.P. 1890. Die Evertebraten aus der Sammlung des Königlichen Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Niederländisch Indien in Batavia. Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië 50: 329-348 [338].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ZMA TU1011, Bay of Jakarta (as Djakarta), between Leiden Is. and Enkhuzen Is., 20 m, Indonesia.
  Paralectotype(s) ZMA TU1255.

  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 [192].
• Styela circumarata Sluiter, C.P. 1904. Die Tunicaten der Siboga-Expedition. Pt. I, Die socialen und holosomen Ascidien. Siboga-Expéditie Report 56A: 1-126 [70].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMA TU1108, 16–23 m, Indonesia [6°07'30"N 120°26'E].
• Polycarpa polyphlebodes Hartmeyer, R. 1919. Ascidien. In, Results of Dr E. Mjöberg's Swedish scientific expeditions to Australia 1910–1913. K. Svenska Vetensk.-Akad. Handl. 60(4): 1–150. [74].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NHRM 1097, 45 miles WSW of Cape Jaubert, 144 m, WA.
• Styela ramificata Kott, P. 1952. Ascidians of Australia. 1. Stolidobranchiata and Phlebobranchiata. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 3(3): 206-333 [214].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM Y1691, southside, Peel Is., Moreton Bay, QLD.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Kott, P. 1985. The Australian Ascidiacea Pt 1, Phlebobranchia and Stolidobranchia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 23: 1-440 [152]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Japan Sea, Caribbean, west Pacific Ocean, tropical west Atlantic Ocean.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

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), 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), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Central E coast, Lower E coast
  • Queensland: Central E coast, NE coast
  • Western Australia: Central W coast, Lower W coast, N coast, NW coast
• New Caledonia

Neotropical Region

Oriental Region

• Indonesia
• Philippines

Palaearctic Region

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Low tide–40 m, on silt, sand and coral substrates.

 

General References

Kott, P. 1992. The Australian Ascidiacea, supplement 2. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 32(2): 621-655 [640]

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 [73] (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)