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CAAB Taxon Report
Animalia (kingdom) » Mollusca (phylum) » Gastropoda (class) » Vetigastropoda (unassigned) (order) » Fissurellidae (family)
| CAAB Code: | 24 040922 |
| Scientific Name and Authority: | Variemarginula spp. |
| CAAB category: | 24 - Mollusca - Gastropoda Gastropods (univalve molluscs, slugs, snails etc.) | |
| Family: | Fissurellidae (keyhole & slit limpets) - show full list | |
| Common Name: | [a slit limpet] | |
| Taxon lists: |
Current Australian list:
 Commercial species list:  Standard Fish Names List: | |
| Regions: |
Australia (inc. subantarctic territories) | |
| Habitat: |
Marine unspecified | |
| Parent Codes: |
24 040000
Fissurellidae - undifferentiated | |
| Child Codes: |
24 040044
Variemarginula variegata | |
| Organism Type: | a slit limpet |
| Taxon Notes: | This code is provided for use when identification of a specimen to this level is sufficient, or when no further detail is available. |
| Scientific Name verified against: | McLean, J.H., 2011. Reinstatement of the fissurellid subfamily Hemitominae, with the description of new genera, and proposed evolutionary lineage, based on morphological characters of shell and radula (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda)., Malacologia, Vol. 54(1-2): 407-427. |