Distaplia australiensis Brewin, 1953

KOTT, PATRICIA, 2003, New syntheses and new species in the Australian Ascidiacea, Journal of Natural History 37 (13), pp. 1611-1653 : 1619

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930110104258

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5260175

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Distaplia australiensis Brewin, 1953
status

 

Distaplia australiensis Brewin, 1953 View in CoL

Distaplia australiensis Brewin, 1953: 61 View in CoL ; Kott, 1990a: 113 and synonymy.

Distribution. New records: Queensland (Moreton Bay, Hanlon Light).

Description. The colony has short branched fleshy stalks arising from common basal test. Each branch terminates in a rounded head with zooids in a row each side of the longitudinal canals that converge to the terminal common cloacal aperture. The zooids are contracted and not in good condition. Some vegetative zooids are present at the top of each stalk but details of their structure were not determined.

Remarks. The species has been reported once from Gladstone (see Kott, 1990a), although more records are from locations between Spencer Gulf, d’Entrecasteaux Channel and Bass Strait. Differences between these southern Australian populations and the Queensland ones have not yet been established.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Ascidiacea

Order

Aplousobranchia

Family

Holozoidae

Genus

Distaplia

Loc

Distaplia australiensis Brewin, 1953

KOTT, PATRICIA 2003
2003
Loc

Distaplia australiensis

Brewin 1953: 61
1953
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