Aplidium longithorax Monniot 1987

Aplidium longithorax Monniot, 1987 Aplidium longithorax Monniot, F., 1987: 525; Monniot and Monniot, 1996: 139. Aplidium protectans: Kott, 1992a: 579. Not Amaroucium protectans Herdman, 1899: 73 < Polycitor protectans. Distribution. New records: Queensland (Swain Reefs, QM G305411, G305678). P 1. (A) Sigillina pulvinus sp. nov. (SAM E2845); (B) Eucoelium orientalis (SAM E2641); (C) Aplidium lenticulum (QM G305407); (D) Aplidium macrolobatum (QM G305732); (E) Botrylloides saccus sp. nov. (SAM E2868). (F) Botrylloides violaceus (QM G308550). Acknowledgements: (A, B, E) K. Gowlett Holmes; (C, D) S. List; (F) N. Coleman. The species is known from the Capricorn Group, the central and far northern Great Barrier Reef including Lizard I. and the Palau Is. Remarks. Both Herdman (1899) and Kott (1963, 1992a) misidentified a Polycitor species as an Aplidium (Amaroucium protectans Herdman, 1899). Fortunately, Monniot and Monniot (1996) examined the type specimen of Polycitor protectans (Herdman, 1899) and corrected this mistake. The species is large and conspicuous.
Published as part of KOTT, PATRICIA, 2003, New syntheses and new species in the Australian Ascidiacea, pp. 1611-1653 in Journal of Natural History 37 (13) on pages 1627-1629, DOI: 10.1080/00222930110104258, http://zenodo.org/record/5260089