New distributional data on ascidian fauna (Tunicata: Ascidiacea) from Mandapam coast, Gulf of Mannar, India Author Jaffarali, Abdul Author Akram, Soban A Author Arshan, Kaleem ML text Biodiversity Data Journal 2016 4 7855 7855 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.4.e7855 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.4.e7855 1314-2828-4-7855 Microcosmus exasperatus Heller, 1878 Materials Type status: Other material . Occurrence: catalogNumber: DBTICMPM06 ; recordedBy: Abdul Jaffarali et al. ; individualCount: 1 ; sex: Hermophrodite ; lifeStage: adult ; Taxon: taxonID: Invasive; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Tunicata; class: Ascidiacea; order: Stolidobranchia; family: Pyuridae; genus: Microcosmus; specificEpithet: exasperatus; scientificNameAuthorship: Heller, 1878; Location: continent: Asia; country: India ; stateProvince: Tamil Nadu; municipality: Ramanathapuram; locality: Mandapam ; locationRemarks: Intertidal flats and shallow water; decimalLatitude: 9.2856 ; decimalLongitude: 79.1586 ; Identification: identifiedBy: Dr. H. Abdul Jaffar Ali; dateIdentified: 2014; Event: samplingProtocol: Dislodging ; year: 2014; month: 3; day: 15; eventRemarks: H. Abdul Jaffarali, A. Soban Akram, M.L. Kaleem Arshan; Record Level: type: Physical Object; language: en; institutionID: IC; collectionID: MPM/PB/01; collectionCode: Ascidians ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Distribution Fiji, Philippines, Hawaii, New Caledonia, Bermuda, Brazil, Indonesia, Florida, New South Wales (Central East coast, Lower East coast), Northern Territory (North coast), Queensland (Central East coast, Northeast coast), Western Australia (Central West coast, Lower West coast, North coast, Northwest coast); West Indies, East Africa, Red Sea. Distribution in India Thoothukudi coast, Chinna Muttom and Vizhinjam Bay.