New syntheses and new species in the Australian Ascidiacea
Author
KOTT, PATRICIA
text
Journal of Natural History
2003
2010-12-03
37
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00222930110104258
journal article
10.1080/00222930110104258
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Clavelina mirabilis
Kott, 1972
Clavelina mirabilis
Kott, 1972: 165
; 1990a: 50.
Distribution
. New records:
Tasmania
(Bicheno, Hairy Wall dive site east of Governor’s I., rock slope,
15–20 m
, SAM E2845).
Previously known from only
two specimens
off
Waldegrave I.
,
S.A. The
new record suggests that the species has a wide range in the
Southern Ocean
, extending into the Great Australian Bight and up the eastern coast of
Tasmania
.
Description
. The newly recorded specimen has a common cylindrical stalk but the thoracic parts of the zooids are independent of one another each in a separate covering of clear transparent test. Thoracic muscle bands are arranged as recorded for the
type
, namely 8E, 8B, 2D.