Symplegma oceania Tokioka, 1961

Jaffarali, Abdul, Akram, Soban A & Arshan, Kaleem ML, 2016, New distributional data on ascidian fauna (Tunicata: Ascidiacea) from Mandapam coast, Gulf of Mannar, India, Biodiversity Data Journal 4, pp. 7855-7855 : 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.