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 Symplegma oceania Tokioka, 1961 Materials Type status: Other material . Occurrence: catalogNumber: DBTICMPM04 ; recordedBy: Abdul Jaffarali et al. ; individualCount: 1 ; sex: Hermophrodite ; lifeStage: adult ; Taxon: taxonID: Cryptogenic; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Tunicata; class: Ascidiacea; order: Stolidobranchia; family: Styelidae; genus: Symplegma; specificEpithet: oceania; scientificNameAuthorship: Tokioka, 1961; 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: Peeling off ; 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 Indonesia, Hong Kong, China (People's Republic), Palau, New Caledonia, Fiji, Sri Lanka, Northern Territory (N coast), Queensland (Central East coast, Great Barrier Reef, Northeast coast), South Australia (Great Australian Bight, South Gulfs coast), Victoria (Bass Strait), Western Australia (Central West coast, Lower West coast, Northwest coast); Noumea, also West Indian Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean. Distribution in India Thoothukudi coast, Leepuram, China Muttom, Colachel & Vizhinjam Bay.