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CAAB Taxon Report
Animalia (kingdom) » Mollusca (phylum) » Gastropoda (class) » Neogastropoda (order) » Muricidae: Rapaninae (family)
| CAAB Code: | 24 200980 |
| Scientific Name and Authority: | Indothais spp. |
| CAAB category: | 24 - Mollusca - Gastropoda | |
| Family: | Muricidae: Rapaninae (gastropods) - show full list | |
| Common Name: | [a whelk] | |
| Recent Synonyms: | Thaisella spp. | |
| Taxon lists: |
Current Australian list:
 Commercial species list:  Standard Fish Names List: | |
| Regions: |
Australia (inc. subantarctic territories) | |
| Habitat: |
Marine unspecified | |
| Parent Codes: |
24 200903
Muricidae: Rapaninae - undifferentiated | |
| Child Codes: |
24 200185
Indothais gradata 24 200186 Indothais javanica 24 200284 Indothais malayensis 24 200285 Indothais wutingi | |
| Organism Type: | a whelk |
| Taxon Notes: | Members of this genus were previously placed in Thaisella, which now regarded as restricted to the eastern Pacific. This code is provided for use when identification of a specimen to this level is sufficient, or when no further detail is available. | ||
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| Scientific Name verified against: | Claremont, M. Vermeij, G.J. Williams, S.T. Reid, D.G., 2012. Global phylogeny and new classification of the Rapaninae (Gastropoda: Muricidae), dominant molluscan predators on tropical rocky seashores., Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Vol. 66: 91-102. |