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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 |
Family: | Fissurellidae (keyhole & slit limpets) - show full list |
Common Name: | [a slit limpet] |
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. |
Parent Codes: |
24 040000
Fissurellidae - undifferentiated |
Child Codes: |
24 040044
Variemarginula variegata |
Taxon lists: |
Current Australian list:
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Regions: |
Australia (inc. subantarctic territories) |
Habitat: |
Marine unspecified |
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. |
Record details
Record entered on 4-Dec-2013 00:00 by Karen Gowlett-Holmes